Expecting Quotes - Page 16

• I should stop expecting so much.

  Ishida Mitsunari

  Should

  "Fictional character: Mitsunari Ishida". Video Game "Samurai Warriors", 2004.

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• You know, honey, Natalie's expecting her second." I arched my eyebrows at my mother, not following the change of subject. "Second what? Mortgage? Conviction? Chance at life?" "Baby of course. Her second baby. The doctor says this one's a girl." I laughed, genuinely amused that my mother thought it should have been so obvious. "Yeah. Well, I bet Natalie can't drop a Stray with a Powerhouse Right Hook.

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

  Julia Quinn

  Years, Gone, Firsts

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• What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Men, Gentleman, Behave

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.120, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

  Philip Yancey

  Disappointment, Reality, Thinking

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.149, Harper Collins

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• When you did the job, you thought you were just trying to amuse your friends who are all on the job. I'm just trying to make the sound guy laugh, the script supervisor. A movie like Caddyshack, I can walk on a golf course and some guy will be screaming entire scenes at me and expecting me to do it word for word with him. It's like, 'Fella, I did that once. I improvised that scene. I don't remember how it goes'. But I'm charmed by it. I'm not like, 'Hey, knock it off'. It's kind of cool.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Golf, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Driving Down The Road, Someday, Ends

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• Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?

  David Sedaris

  Believe, House, Insanity

  "The Birds". www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2007.

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• A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

  Kate Morton

  Girl, Mean, Rescue

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

  Amy Winehouse

  Rose, Cynical, Want

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• When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

  Donald Miller

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2015

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• Derek caught my arm again as I started to move--at this rate, it was going to be as sore as my injured one. "Dog," he said, jerking his chin toward the fenced yard. "It was inside earlier." Expecting to see a Doberman slavering at the fence, I followed his gaze to a little puff of white fur, the kind of dog women stick in their purses. It wasn't even barking, just staring at us, dancing in place. "Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dog, Moving, Thinking

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening: Number 2 in series”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

  Bryan Singer

  Summer, Thinking, People

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• Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

  Rajneesh

  Frustration, Expectations, Ego

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• The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Simple, Easy

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• I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Disappointment, Thinking, Long

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• I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

  Dana Reeve

  Long, Fairs, Long Time

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• Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Spiritual

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.106, Discovery House

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• Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.

  Gail Carriger

  Strong, Opposites, Fruit Juice

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• I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.

  Helen DeWitt

  School, Age, Proust

  Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around it. But one thing I do know: Jesus is expecting me, and He's prepared a place for me.

  Greg Laurie

  Country, Jesus, Cities

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• It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Rude, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Voice, Cracks

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• Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.

  Gayle Forman

  Blow, Wind, Sometimes

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.35, Penguin

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• I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. Mostly, I imagine I'll crouch there at the door, fall onto him, and cry hard into the stench of his fur. I'll wait for him to wake up, but he won't. I'll bury him. I'll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon frays and falls down in my backyard. For now, though, he's okay. I can see him breathing. He just smells like he's dead.

  Markus Zusak

  Dog, Fall, Breathing

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.19, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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