Expecting Quotes - Page 26

• Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

  Zoe Saldana

  Pace, Be Patient, Evolution

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Sometimes when I'm under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I'll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down - I'm a skilled writer, I've been doing it all my life - and I can get down to it.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Stuff, Pressure

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• Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Powerful, Stuff, Ifs

  Source: artisticactivism.org

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• Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

  Ronaldinho

  Country, Mean, Winning

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• An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Office, Community

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.

  W. S. Merwin

  Art, Simple, Thinking

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• All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, People, Focus

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.

  Robert Benchley

  Dance, People, Theatre

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• May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Journey, House, World

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.10, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Cities, Paris, Mountain

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• Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.

  Robert G. Picard

  Two, Online, Newspapers

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• New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.

  Alexander Theroux

  Moving, Mean, Eggs

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• At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.

  Jacques Roumain

  Dog, Brother, Rain

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• I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

  Lakshmi

  Motivational, Country, Oil

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• Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Helping Others, Care, Deeds

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• They played great and I can honestly say I don't think any of us were expecting this type of performance. They were great. You have to give them credit for that.

  Erik Spoelstra

  Thinking, Nba Championships, Nba Finals

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• In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work with expecting immediate reward, to love without an instant satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. It is only when we are detached from ourselves that we can be at peace with ourselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, Special, Rewards

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• With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Winning, Tvs

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• When I was six I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.

  Nico Mirallegro

  Hair, Six, Talent

  "Why we are watching... Nico Mirallegro". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

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• One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Artist, Long, Waiting

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write a world that seems true and real, never more than when expecting readers to believe in magic and angels and fairies.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Believe, Responsibility

  Exclusive Books Interview, blog.exclus1ves.co.za.

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• We were all expecting to finish [Downton Abbey] after Series 1, actually. And then, it got extended to Series 3, and that's when two of our much loved and much missed friends left. And then, it was going to be done with Series 5, but Julian Fellowes said, "I'd like to do one more." So it's been a series of extensions, rather than wondering how much longer we can go on for.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Two, Done, Goes On

  "Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’, The Final Season, Julian Fellowes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2015.

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• They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

  Josephus

  Pain, Healing, Past

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• No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, People, Victim

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• [On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Attitude, Party, Night

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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