Expecting Quotes - Page 25

• I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

  Marilyn

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping

  Melissa Marr

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

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• I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

  Mark Hoppus

  Missing, Records, Stuff

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• In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

  Helen Slater

  People, Film, Supergirl

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• Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

  Mitch Albom

  Dog, Games, Chicago

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• Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

  LZ Granderson

  Jobs, People, Problem

  "Stop demonizing people who need aid" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2013.

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• You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

  Jenna Fischer

  Dream, Expectations, Forever

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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• A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Home, Tchaikovsky, Cds

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• For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  People, Occupation, Rooms

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• Marriage has failed because you could not rise to the standard that you were expecting of marriage, of the concept of marriage. You were brutal, you were, you were full of jealousies, you were full of lust; you had never known really what love is. In the name of love, you tried everything which is just the opposite of love: possessiveness, domination, power.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love You, Love Is

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• I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

  John Lahr

  Play, Theatre, Want

  "Questions for John Lahr". www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

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• Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.

  Joe Greene

  Doing Things For Others, Return, Causes

  "New Facebook Changes Will Help You Change the World" by Joe Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

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• We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

  Adrienne Rich

  Lying, Men, Political

  Adrienne Cécile Rich (1977). “Women and honor: some notes on lying”

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• We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Player, Games

  "Sen. Barack Obama's remarks". www.politico.com. December 12, 2007.

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• A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

  Anne Sweeney

  Jobs, Focus, Leader

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• Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven.

  Shalom Auslander

  Heaven, Hell, Ill

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.211, Penguin

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• I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.

  Alan Bradley

  Thinking, Long Ago, Oatmeal

  Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.145, Delacorte Press

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• don't talk about legacy. I have a job to do, and I'm doing it. And I'm not expecting a legacy and I'm not expecting to get pride from some legacy, I'm doing a job that I believe needs to be done. I am willing to do it for the time, and I am not looking for some kind of an accolade or whatever. I don't consider myself anything special. I work hard.

  Frank Lowy

  Jobs, Believe, Hard Work

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Marriage, Girl, Falling In Love

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise,
  He who defers this work from day to day,
  Does on a river's bank expecting stay,
  Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone,
  That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.

  Abraham Cowley

  Wise, Running, Time

  Abraham Cowley (1777). “Select works [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.257

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• Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

  Arthur Symons

  Vision, Veils, Able

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

  John Burdett

  Humility, Thinking, Kind

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• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  Abigail Johnson

  Senior, Jobs, Organization

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• Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

  Aaron Belz

  Fun, Alternatives, Surprise

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Kids, Thinking, Impact

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview Real Steel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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