Expecting Quotes - Page 4

• The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Relationship, Real

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.106, Random House

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• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't expect a great day; create one.

  Bob Proctor

  Inspirational, Attitude, Creating

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• If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle with the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expected or hoped to see than on what was really there.

  Madeleine Albright

  Black And White, Expectations, Intelligence

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• In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Future, Eye

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

  Beth Moore

  God, Christian, Bigger And Better Things

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• Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

  Silvia Colloca

  Girl, Moving, Eye

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• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

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• Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don’t put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It’s something you’re supposed to do. Now, you can’t go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That’s stupid.

  Chuck D

  Stupid, Glowing, Voting

  "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September, 2004.

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• Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

  Conrad Hall

  Shows, Audience, One Thing

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  You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

  Tom Petty

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

  Song: You And I Will Meet Again

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• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Happiness, Real

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2124, Delphi Classics

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• There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Charity, Vexation

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• And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

  David Thewlis

  Monday, London, Lasts

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

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• But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

  Amy Grant

  Years, Records, Answers

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• A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

  Wes Montgomery

  Cutting, Rocks, Guitar

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• And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

  Olivier Martinez

  Thinking, People, Genius

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• I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

  Christie Hefner

  Years, Skills, World

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

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• The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Return, Investment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Winning, People, Election

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• I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

  Placido Domingo

  Careers, Conducting, Prove

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• Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Mindfulness, Today

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

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• Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.

  Eva Braun

  Should Have, Hot, Drs

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• The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.

  Stephen Collins

  Mother, Daughter, Years

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