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Expectations Quotes (page 54)

Patti Smith quote: "No one expected me. Everything awaited me."
No one expected me. Everything awaited me. Patti Smith
One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that. Audrey Hepburn
Mary Renault quote: "There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally..."
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare. Mary Renault
How did so many women get to this unhappy place of not understanding how truly "simple" men are in their requirements and how much benevolent power their wives have over them? Why did notions like assuaging "male ego" and using "feminine wiles" rocket into disrepute? How is it that so many women are angry with men in general yet expect to have a happy life married to one of them? There are a number of reasons for this, and I believe they all revolve around the assault upon, and virtual... Laura Schlessinger
While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true... Shunryu Suzuki
And, anyway, friendship is different in another language; a foreign friend doesn't have to understand what you feel, and I don't expect it. It's enough if he understands what you just said. Michael Chabon
Helen Fielding quote: "we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our..."
..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'. Helen Fielding
A. J. Jacobs quote: "He's skinny, but not the POW skinny I was expecting. More like..."
He's skinny, but not the POW skinny I was expecting. More like lead-singer-of-an-emo-band skinny. A. J. Jacobs
She now lost every expectation of pleasure. They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself Jane Austen
... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so. Lucy Larcom
Anne Rice quote: "He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive,..."
He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy. Anne Rice
There's just this….an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined. Virginia Woolf
I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I don’t care who’s a werewolf and who’s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too. Stephenie Meyer
While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing. Nicholas Sparks

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