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Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. -- Arnold H. Glasow
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Albert Einstein
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. -- Seneca the Younger
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. -- Dennis Wholey
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. -- Charles Kettering
You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again. -- Tom Petty
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping -- Melissa Marr
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise. -- Alice Walker
Expecting hell, we're ill prepared for heaven. -- Shalom Auslander
Dream: Defying Reality Expecting A Miracle! Dare to dream! -- Evinda Lepins
Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about. -- Kevin DeYoung
Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.... -- John Ashbery
Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. -- Seneca the Younger
Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins. -- Rachel Caine
Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think. -- John Burdett
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God -- William Carey
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian -- Dennis Wholey
Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible. -- Ronnie Oldham
When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U...!!! -- Abhijeet Sawant
Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness. -- John Stuart Mill
They got special terms that they use when they're pregnant. They don't even say pregnant, got special words they use - I'm expecting. Expecting what? I'm expecting a child, silly. Well, then, you probably got a good shot! -- Brad Stine
You begin by always expecting good things to happen. -- Tom Hopkins
Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something. -- Bernie Mac
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. -- Gore Vidal
Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give. -- Melody Beattie
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. -- Samuel Johnson
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it. -- Alexander Dubcek
Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else. -- Conrad Hall
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. -- Seneca the Younger
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. -- Francois Rabelais
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house. -- Robert Breault
I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. -- Neil Diamond
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. -- Katharine Hepburn
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. -- Hans Blix
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker. -- Olivier Martinez
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Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return. -- Ben Parr
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work. -- Anne Sweeney
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting. -- June Allyson
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A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me. -- Sia Furler
Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled. -- Silvia Colloca
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. -- Carlos Fuentes
The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it. -- Stephen Collins
Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid. -- Chuck D
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go. -- Amy Grant
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did. -- Joan Collins
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. -- Anne Lamott
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users. -- Joe Green
I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit. -- Bob Weir
Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility. -- Yehuda Berg
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting. -- The Edge
Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. -- Marc Jacobs
Give, expecting nothing there of. -- Thomas Aquinas
Never want something without expecting it -- Bob Proctor
I should stop expecting so much. -- Ishida Mitsunari
The Church is a family expecting guests. -- Andy Stanley
Start believing bigger, dreaming bigger & expecting bigger. -- Joel Osteen
It is better to love than expecting love. -- Debasish Mridha
Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it. -- Erica Jong
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected? -- Bob Dylan
Do--what should be done--without expecting anything in return. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ... -- Mary Russell Mitford
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father. -- Andre Dubus III
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father. -- Andre Dubus III
There is no such thing as expecting too much. -- Susan Cheever
Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life.. -- Shivam Singh
Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult -- Marshall Sylver
I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same. -- Philibert Orry
At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it. -- Jimmy Buffett
Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results. -- Starhawk
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. -- Dominic Cooper
The defense should be expecting a run or a pass here. -- John Madden
When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest. -- Graham Swift
Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return. -- Simon Sinek
If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed. -- Barry Pepper
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. -- May Sarton
England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country -- Fred Trueman
I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. -- Placido Domingo
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. -- Maurice Setters
Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return. -- Marilyn Manson
One foot in each world, riding them simultaneously; expecting not to fall. -- Kelly Proudfoot
The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly. -- Brian Weiss
Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs. -- Mitch Albom
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. -- Haruki Murakami
Issues arise not from expecting too much from people, but too little. -- Robert J. Braathe
So many people are expecting a miracle instead of BEING a miracle. -- Wayne Dyer
Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less -- Jodi Picoult
To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return. -- Madonna Ciccone
Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities. -- Ellen J. Barrier
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you. -- Wayne Dyer
The essence of love is to give continually, without expecting anything in return. -- Ryuho Okawa
American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness. -- Taissa Farmiga
You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. -- John Green
No matter how much you're expecting it, it's still unexpected when it comes. -- Jason McAteer
I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level. -- Aaron Rodgers
I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people -- Christina Aguilera
I have been swamped with tremendous response. I am expecting a huge crowd. -- Frances Wright
We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever. -- Seth Klarman
I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp. -- Jeff Lindsay
Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return. -- Criss Jami
Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat. -- Evelyn Waugh
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. -- George Bernard Shaw
Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary. -- Donna Lynn Hope
Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever. -- Barbara Samuel
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. -- Gautama Buddha
I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up ... -- Elizabeth Goudge
Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change. -- Leon Brown
Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! -- Jerry Garcia

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