Expecting Quotes - Page 19

• England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country

  Fred Trueman

  Mother, Country, England

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• The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Years, People

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• There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Hysteria, East

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• 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

  Blow, Hunting, Laughing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Book, Giving, Humanity

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• Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

  Dorothy Day

  Gratitude, Giving, Feel Good

  "Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation". Book by Parker Palmer, pp. 48-49, 1999.

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• When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

  Donald Miller

  People, Perfect, Trouble

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.206, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Powerful, Compassion

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.167, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Children, Moon, Together

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• I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

  Nick Bantock

  Mistake, Thinking, Offering

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

  Beth Moore

  Expecting Something, Different, Way

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• To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Lying, Confused

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

  John Green

  People, Towns, Problem

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.194, A&C Black

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• 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

  Damage Is Done, People, Needs

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• I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Children, Pain, People

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• I've learned through my own relationship with God that He's not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

  Joyce Meyer

  Heart, Perfect, Want

  "Overcome Doubt and Live With Bold Faith" by Joyce Meyer, www.christianpost.com. July 26, 2015.

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• Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

  Joyce Meyer

  Long, Sometimes, Habit

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• My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

  Joyce Meyer

  Father, Atmosphere, Negative

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• I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

  Helen Mirren

  Night, Sick, Suffering

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• I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, World, Grew Up

  "Alan Moore Takes League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen To The ’60s". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 21, 2011.

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• 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

  Writing, People, Bored

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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• I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Intention, Patches

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• "Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth." "I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it."

  Nora Roberts

  Worry, Creepy, Together

  "Salvation in Death". Book by Nora Roberts, November 4, 2008.

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• His blue-black hair fell over his face when he moved, like tiny arrows pointing to pronounced cheeckbones. "Starting to think you were going to bail on me." "Didn't know you were expecting me," she said in what she hoped was a casual voice. He gets sexier every day. "Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping

  Melissa Marr

  Thinking, Hair, Blue

  Melissa Marr (2011). “Wicked Lovely with Bonus Material”, p.24, Harper Collins

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