Expecting Quotes - Page 21

• When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

  Graham Swift

  People, Looks, Truest

  Graham Swift (2012). “The Sweet Shop Owner”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide eyes, holding up his sword in defense, She heated his sword and he dropped it, his expression barely changing, as if he had been expecting that. She held up her two swords to his throat, but they were two heavy, so she dropped one and held the other with both hands. "Where are the two Bayern boys kept?" The soldier shook his head. BURN HIM, prompted the fire. The excitement of burning was simmering in her, heating her up for more action.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Boys, Two

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• Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

  Jerry Garcia

  Running, Live Life, Winning

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• The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here.

  John Madden

  Funny, Running, Nfl

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• Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Track, Ponies

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• There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Stupid, Drinking

  "I Think I'm Meant to Be Dead". Interview with Lauren Zoric, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2000.

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• But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Thinking, Ugly, Kind

  Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.199, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Home, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.120, Random House

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• I am not personally a parent.  But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third.  I am naturally concerned for their future.  If I ruled the world you could bet your boots that none of them would ever set their eyes on any such contraptions as digital clocks and pocket calculators.  But alas, I do not rule the world and that, I am afraid, is the story of my life - always a godmother, never a God.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Eye, Two, Parent

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.104, Vintage

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• Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.

  Anne Carson

  Dark, Light, Mind

  "Nox by Anne Carson" by Andrew Motion, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Heart, Giving

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

  Mitch Albom

  Happiness, Bars, Treasure

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

  Donald Miller

  Love You, Giving, Risk

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.150, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mean, Answers, Power Of God

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• Our instructors do not understand how it is. To be bound to someone in such a way. They are too old, too out of touch with their emotions. They no longer remember what it is to live and breathe within the world. They think it simple to pit any two people against each other. It is never simple. The other person becomes how you define your life, how you define yourself. They become as necessary as breathing. Then they expect the victor to continue on without that. It would be like pulling the Murray twins apart and expecting them to be the same. They would be whole but not complete.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Simple, Two

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• How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?" "'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did feel like Neverland. "Crikey, am I so obviously Peter Pan?" Maddie laughed. "The Lost Boys give it away." Jamie studied his hands. "Mother keeps the windows open in all our bedrooms while we're gone, like Mrs. Darling, just in case we come flying home when she's not expecting us.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Mother, Morning, Home

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.111, Egmont UK

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• So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn’t want. Instead I was embraced.

  Kiera Cass

  Girl, Fighting, Want

  Kiera Cass (2014). “The Selection Series 3-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Prince, The Guard”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Despite the heat in her face, it felt as if cold needles of ice were running up and down her veins. "What are you doing here?" He drew back slightly, looking disappointed. "That isn't really an answer to my question, you know. I was expecting more of a "Hallelujah Chorus.' I mean, it's not every day your boyfriend comes back from the dead." "I already knew you weren't dead." She spoke through numb lips. "I saw you in the library. With--" "Colonel Mustard?" "Sebastian.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Mean, Ice

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• No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Mean, Kids

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Dragons, Breathing

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.426, Macmillan

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• She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.

  Libba Bray

  Life, Country, Brother

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• Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Eye, Cutting

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• While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Thinking, Years, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Writing, People

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• Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Mother, Unexpected, Said

  Marjorie M. Liu (2008). “The Iron Hunt”, p.49, Penguin

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