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Expectation Quotes (page 38)

His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked. Margaret Weis
Mercedes Lackey quote: "Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies."
Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies. Mercedes Lackey
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes. Barbara Kingsolver
If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer. Frederick Buechner
Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when he delegates might have been expected to occupy themselves with more pressing concerns -like how they were going to win the war and escape hanging- Congress quite extraordinarily found time to debate business for a motto for the new nation. (Their choice, E Pluribus Unum, "One from Many", was taken from, of all places, a recipe for salad in an early poem by Virgil.) Bill Bryson
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. Karl Kraus
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it? Thomas Pynchon
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. Jane Austen
John Irving quote: "It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to..."
It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change. John Irving
Henry Ward Beecher quote: "Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of..."
Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher
Terry Prachett quote: "Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where..."
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. Terry Prachett
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland) Douglas Adams
Bob Dylan quote: "everyone is making love or else expecting rain"
everyone is making love or else expecting rain Bob Dylan
Rumi quote: "Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations,..."
Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Rumi
If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space. Percival Lowell

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