Quotes About Expecting The Worst

#1. No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Jerry Garcia

#3. I'd kind of already been expecting the worst, to be in this alone. Now I knew. Twice he'd disappointed me; this couldn't be a surprise. Nothing had changed, not really.

Kylie Scott

#4. Now as she sat in the candlelight waiting for his reaction, her chest hurt from holding her breath, expecting the worst, hoping for the impossible; waiting for him to respond.

Lynette Chambers

#5. Theano: Always expecting the worst, you are.

Danae: If you expect terrible things, then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.

Adele Geras

#6. I didn't say anything. But I could have pointed out that most life-changing says happen without your expecting them. I have spent what seems like half my life expecting the worst. And it never happens. But on the day it does, it will knock me flat on my back anyway.

Nick Hornby

#7. Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Alexander Dubcek

#8. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami

#9. Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!
live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Jerry Garcia

#10. Being honest to the people around you is the best thing you ever do to them,but expecting the same from them is the worst thing you ever do to yourself

Anonymous

#11. Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

John Wooden

#12. Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the top of the mountains, but to improve the man.

Aron Ralston

#13. Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit.

Eric Bristow

#14. What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

Sally Phillips

#15. Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.

George Henry Boker

#16. My life goal right now is to die a good man, with a good heart, soul, and mind, with a good family, and a couple Grammys.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#17. You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. If the 'Mystics' were about Isolation..Purity about 'White'..Hermits about 'Rags' and Love about 'Self'...
There is tons above and beyond the visible!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#19. The man is clear in his mind. But his soul is mad.

Patton Oswalt

#20. Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.

Herman Melville

#21. The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Cyril Connolly

#22. Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.

Howard Zinn

#23. I tell you, love your enemies. Help and give without expecting a return. You'll never - I promise - regret it. Live out this God-created identity the way our Father lives toward us, generously and graciously, even when we're at our worst. Our Father is kind; you be kind.

Eugene H. Peterson