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Expecting Quotes (page 55)

P. G. Wodehouse quote: "I expect I shall feel better after tea."
I expect I shall feel better after tea. P. G. Wodehouse
I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs. Suzanne Collins
She was one of the few stay-at-home moms in Ramsey Hill and was famously averse to speaking well of herself or ill of anybody else. She said that she expected to be “beheaded” someday by one of the windows whose sash chains she’d replaced. Her children were “probably” dying of trichinosis from pork she’d undercooked. She wondered if her “addiction” to paint-stripper fumes might be related to her “never” reading books anymore. She confided that she’d been “forbidden” to fertilize Walter’s... Jonathan Franzen
But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin. Jeffrey Eugenides
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. Edward Everett Hale
Impressions of the Spirit can come in response to urgent prayer or unsolicited when needed. Sometimes the Lord reveals truth to you when you are not actively seeking it, such as when you are in danger and do not know it. However, the Lord will not force you to learn. You must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you. As you make this a practice in your life, you will be more perceptive to the feelings that come with spiritual guidance. Then, when that guidance comes,... Richard G. Scott
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old..."
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) Elizabeth Gilbert
We cannot expect the Americans to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but, we can assist their leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly wake up to find they have Communism. Nikita Khrushchev
Don DeLillo quote: "The less important you are in an office, the more they expect..."
The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile. Don DeLillo
The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958 Mort Sahl
To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected Thomas Paine
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree? Mortimer Adler
[I]n adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult readers who do deal in straightforward stories find themselves sidelined into a genre such as crime or science fiction, where no one expects literary craftsmanship. But stories are vital. Stories never fail us, because, as Isaac Bashevis Singer says, "events never grow stale." There's more wisdom in a story than in volumes of philosophy.... Philip Pullman
John Steinbeck quote: "It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is..."
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. John Steinbeck
Haruki Murakami quote: "Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're..."
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. Haruki Murakami

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