Quotes About Expecting Something New

#1. Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.

Henri Nouwen

#2. Remember, habits are powerful because they create neurological cravings. It helps to add a new reward if you want to overcome your previous cravings. Only once your brain starts expecting the reward will the important rewiring take place that will allow you to create new habits.

Barbara Oakley

#3. Hold on to that new, enlarge vision of victory that God has given you. Start expecting things to change in your favor. Dare to boldly declare that you are standing strong against the forces of darkness.

Joel Osteen

#4. I believe there are two kinds of people in this world. The ones who do everything right, expecting the perfect outcome every time, and those who know better.

Faith Sullivan

#5. I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

Patrick White

#6. Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!"
"What were you expecting?"
"Real estate!

Charles M. Schulz

#7. This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.

Marsha Blackburn

#8. Unca Jay!"
"How's it going Claire?"
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"I can see that. Where's your mama?"
"Gone, gone, gone," Claire sang. "Cwaire pway wid Qwil aaaawl day. Cwaire nebber gowin home.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. New York City park bathrooms feel like a crime scene. You are always expecting to see yellow police tape and a chalk-outlined body.

Jim Gaffigan

#10. The folks like myself that do this for a living, we were expecting a regular campaign had built the databases, done all the new social media, learned our lessons from [Barack] Obama whipping us twice on how to do voter contact, and then Donald Trump gets in it and turns it into a national election.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#11. The important thing is that you show your appreciation without expecting anything in return, and that you get new work out of the appreciation.

Austin Kleon

#12. Nice slippers," Davin grinned. They were green and furry. "Thanks." I shrugged and looked him over, half expecting to see a new injury. "So what's up?" He had one hand behind his back.

J.M. Richards

#13. I'm the bad guy on the rest of Jennifer Love Hewitt's 'The Client List,' I'm the bad guy in Renny Harlin's 'Hercules 3D,' and I'm a movie star - finally - on Showtime's new series 'Ray Donovan.' But most importantly, I'm about to be a daddy, so I'm expecting some 'Dark Circles' for real.

Johnathon Schaech

#14. Should haves lead to death

Maria V. Snyder

#15. He pulled out a dagger from ... she wasn't sure where. Did he have that in his loin cloth? What else does he have in there?
(Amy's thoughts, The Witching Pen)

Dianna Hardy

#16. Only crazy people don't do anything new and they expecting new result.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.

Bill Burr

#18. No one knows the future, yet we can't stop guessing while expecting of only the good, and not the bad or even both.

Auliq Ice

#19. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)

Brian Rock

#20. If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

Eamon De Valera

#21. I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

Rachel Sklar

#22. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from sleeping with one strange woman after another. It just tires you out and makes you disgusted with yourself.

Haruki Murakami

#23. A star is a person who shines so brightly,who gives their gifts so fully,who loves so completely that everyone is drawn by the light of this star to find the way home.

Chuck Spezzano

#24. you should never underestimate the power of keeping your mind open to new information. If you're always receptive, you could gain just that piece of the puzzle you need, when you're least expecting it.

Bryan Dodge

#25. I've got a pretty good musical ear, and I can pick things up.

Martin Freeman

#26. I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

Misha Collins