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  To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Kindness, Be Kind, Return

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• The great test of faith is to wait on God. . . not expecting to push a button and get whatever we want now.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in prayer until we obtain an answer; and further we have not only to continue in prayer unto the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us, and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing.

  George Muller

  Prayer, Believe, Blessing

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• I do not think the British want to become America's "Airstrip One," as the British Isles are called in George Orwell's "1984." The EU's internal market was a massive success even before the UK joined it, and it joined because there was no real alternative. So while British tabloids are expecting to be punished by Germany, Brexit is punishment in itself.

  Anthony Glees

  Real, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

  Timothy Keller

  Reality, Kingdoms, Embrace

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• I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

  Eric Davis

  Loss, Winning, Thinking

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• All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

  John Irving

  People, Feelings, Moments

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• I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

  Karl Pilkington

  Thinking, Pessimistic, Nine

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins." I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I really thought Nick would get it. I was very surprised. It was neck and neck with Nick Nolte and myself. So I really was expecting that to happen, and I went in there without any expectations.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Expectations, Oscars, Necks

  Interview with Helen Keier, www.ign.com. February 10, 2001.

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• You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

  Orson Scott Card

  Christian, World, Ends

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.371, Tor Science Fiction

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• On the times when I used to make movies that were with a lower budget, nobody was expecting it to be a hit, and nobody was paying attention to what I was doing, and it was a free type of creative process. So, one way to reset myself is to go back to that kind of moviemaking.

  Takashi Miike

  Creative, Attention, Way

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• I think that if you want help from somebody, you ask. You ask not expecting anyone to give it to you, unless it is a friend or a loved one with whom you should have those expectations, because friends should help friends. Even so, when I ask friends for blurbs or for endorsements or instructions, I always leave room for the fact that they're probably busy and have a million more things to do in their day than give me Ryan Gosling's phone number. Which I've never asked for, just by way of casual example.

  Sara Benincasa

  Thinking, Giving, Expectations

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

  Juliette Binoche

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "Juliette Binoche in Ann Arbor starring in 'Antigone'". Interview with John Monaghan, www.usatoday.com. October 12, 2015.

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• As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.

  Nicky Jam

  Responsibility, People, Trying

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Body

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• You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that I've seen. I'm expecting a tough time, as we get everywhere we go, but racism hasn't been a problem before.

  Glenn McGrath

  Past, Racism, Tough Times

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• I've been going to San Diego's Comic-Con every year since 2007 or 2008. The first time I went it was an overwhelming experience because I wasn't expecting all the people; I wasn't even expecting all the joy. I came from a background where, when I was about eighteen or nineteen, I found comic-book fandom. But it was the fandom of online communities. And within those communities there was a tremendous amount of excitement and joy, but I'd never been around people in such a large group setting where this joy was pouring out of them. It was a revelation.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  People, Community, Joy

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Sea, Drawing, People

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• I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

  Karen Armstrong

  Ideas, Clouds, Talking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.

  Adam Morris

  Latin, Authenticity, Tradition

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.

  Andrew Ripp

  Blow, Night, Feelings

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• People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

  Richard Gere

  Character, Reality, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

  Denis Waitley

  Running, Real, Winning

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• I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Opposites, Ideas, Expecting Something

  Jean Anouilh, Ugo Betti, Jean-Paul Sartre (1958). “Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre”

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