Expecting Quotes
Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.
Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.
A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.
When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.
My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.
That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.
I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.
They played great and I can honestly say I don't think any of us were expecting this type of performance. They were great. You have to give them credit for that.
The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.
Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.
When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.
Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.
If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now that Jesus has come, the Bible was more like clay to be molded.
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.
I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.
You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.
You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.
Everyone is looking for me to bring a gold back home, and a lot of people in other places are expecting me to win.
I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.
By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.
Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.
I'm expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that.
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial.
When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.
Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?
People always ask me to list my greatest accomplishments, expecting me to rattle off a bunch of movies I've made, but what I'm proudest of is my kids.
Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.
When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.
Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.
The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.
My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.
Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
Just as a random thing, because I can't choose a favorite song ever, I'll go for Minnie Riperton's "Expecting".
One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.
I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous film work.