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Expectations Quotes (page 52)

All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in... Aiden Wilson Tozer
Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. Joseph Conrad
You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears. Graham Greene
...childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place, into another reality. In adulthood boredom is made of repetition, it is the continuation of something from which we are no longer expecting any surprise. Italo Calvino
Linus Pauling quote: "Do unto others 20% better than you'd expect them to do unto..."
Do unto others 20% better than you'd expect them to do unto you to correct subjective error. Linus Pauling
...and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that instead of obeying commands in silence, they expected to be flattered into their duty. Plutarch
Voltaire quote: "The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of..."
The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds. Voltaire
What did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers. Peter Shaffer
Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself. Chuck Palahniuk
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I... Abraham Lincoln
Henry Miller quote: "I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would..."
I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing. Henry Miller
Rick Warren quote: "The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to..."
The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be. Rick Warren
Alexander Dumas quote: "You who are in power have only the means that money produces?..."
You who are in power have only the means that money produces? we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts. Alexander Dumas
Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you seem to lose some of it. I expect it must be the change in your expression."Startled, Tiffany flew to gaze anxiously into the ornate looking-glass which hung above the fireplace. "Do I?" she asked naively. "Really do I, Ancilla?"Yes, decidedly," replied Miss Trent, perjuring her soul without the least hesitation. Georgette Heyer
We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living. Joan Didion

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