Expecting Something Quotes

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  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, Inspirational, Romantic

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Happiness, Real

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2124, Delphi Classics

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• Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sacrifice, Expecting Something In Return, Return

  "The life and loves of a he-devil". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2007.

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• 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.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Expecting Something In Return, Each Day

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Opposites, Ideas, Want

  Jean Anouilh, Ugo Betti, Jean-Paul Sartre (1958). “Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre”

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• All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

  Bernie Mac

  Awards, Upset, Female

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• Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

  Bernie Mac

  Upset, Way, Expecting

  "Bernie Mac Interviewed - 'Pride'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 20, 2007.

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• I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

  Kris Allen

  Giving, Want, Feels

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• You cannot keep doing the same thing, the same way, and keep expecting something different to happen.

  Beth Moore

  Different, Way, Happens

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• Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.

  Joan Lunden

  Real, Different, Dramatic

  Joan Lunden (2001). “Wake-up calls”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• God spoke to me clearly and said, 'Did I give my son Jesus on the cross expecting nothing in return?' God bankrupted heaven and gave the best gift he could give. He gave the best offering he could give. What did God need? He needed sons and daughters, he gave the very thing he needed. You can bring God a gift fully expecting something in return. Get to the phone!'

  Paul Crouch

  Daughter, Jesus, Son

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• Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Simple, Expecting Something In Return, Waiting

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• Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!

  Red McCombs

  Mean, Wrestling, Winning

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• I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with this analysis, to accept the trifles of life and be content with them, as many others do.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Passion, Soul, Deception

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• I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.

  Tim Allen

  Commitment, Reality, Airports

  "An interview with Tim Allen". Interview to Laugh Factory Magazine, www.timallen.com. 1994.

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• If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

  David Cottrell

  Expecting Something In Return, Giving, Debt

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• She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with a little more flair." "Well, I left my armor and warhorse at home," she said. "You're just upset because your big University brain couldn't think of a way, and my plan is brilliant.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Home, Thinking, Ideas

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• But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dark, Expecting Something In Return, Please Me

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• There are Millions of people in this world. Then why are you born? The reason is, Allah is expecting something from you, which is not possible by Millions.

  Shahid Afridi

  People, World, Reason

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• Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.

  David

  Opportunity, Expecting Something In Return, Knowing

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