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Expectancy Quotes (page 43)

But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky. Barbara Kingsolver
Jane Austen quote: "A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset..."
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when betterbehavior is expected of them. Jane Austen
I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that, if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life Elaine Dundy
Alan Moore quote: "Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead."
Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead. Alan Moore
It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts. Emma Bull
I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now. C. S. Lewis
The sage produces without possessing, acts without expectations, and accomplishes without abiding in her accomplishments. It is precisely because she does not abide in them that they never leave her. Lao Tzu
And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day? C. S. Lewis
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart... George Eliot
Matt Groening quote: "Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney."
Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney. Matt Groening
Martin Buber quote: "One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that..."
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves. Martin Buber
So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood? Charlotte Bronte
Alice Hoffman quote: "That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected..."
That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness. Alice Hoffman
There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought. Gordon B. Hinckley
What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead. Jodi Picoult

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