Expecting Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

Different, Same, Again

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Forward, Real, Living

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
Marilyn Monroe

Happy, American, Child

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn

Love, Nothing, Everything

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

Life, Happy, Real

You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
Tom Petty

Friend, Place, Again

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today, Greatest, Tomorrow

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson

Love, Again, Expect

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Evil, Nothing, Before

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci

Power, Experience, Her

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold H. Glasow

Hope, Nothing, Popular

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore Vidal

Yourself, Children, Parents

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.
Chuck D.

Stupid, Yourself, Put

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
Marilyn Manson

Time, Best, Done

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles Kettering

Down, Keep, Anyone

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
Carlos Ghosn

Good, Great, Leaving

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
Adele

Together, Wanted, Child

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.
Anne Lamott

Humor, Time, History

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
Francois Rabelais

Men, Cause, Charity

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.
Donald Cargill

Life, Father, Through

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.
Tom Hopkins

Good, Happen, Begin

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
Haruki Murakami

Time, Bored, Creative

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.
Gus Van Sant

Good, Experience, Laugh

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.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Enjoy, Friends, Show

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.
Russell Baker

Important, Writing, Friends

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.
Jimmy Buffett

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Judith Martin

Mean, Honesty, Face

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.
Jerry Lewis

Sexy, America, Nation

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.
Amy Grant

Deep, Tell, Her

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
Lion Feuchtwanger

History, Teach, Radio

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