Quotes About Expecting Things

#1. That's what's wrong with people today, expecting things like marriage to be interesting.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I'd gone my whole life with people expecting things I didn't seem capable of giving, so why should now be any different?

Jordan Castillo Price

#3. You want to have a future where you're expecting things to be better, not one where you're expecting things to be worse.

Elon Musk

#4. And that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like
yourself. But it takes time.

Jojo Moyes

#5. People tend to invert the most natural order of life, which is to move before things happen, instead of expecting things to happen to move.

Robin Sacredfire

#6. The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

Radhanath Swami

#7. 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

#8. Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.

Cora Carmack

#9. Life gets easier when you stop caring and expecting things to get better!

Nehali Lalwani

#10. To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.

Susana Fortes

#11. Try not to look like that," Ascher said under breath, after we were in the elevator.
"Like what?" I asked.
"Like you're expecting ninjas to leap out of the trash cans. This is a party."
"Everyone knows there's no such things as ninjas," I scoffed. "But it will be something. Count on it.

Jim Butcher

#12. I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen

Ryan Hall

#13. People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren't expecting to see them.

Dean Koontz

#14. Since I will never know what the future holds, I choose to live my life expecting great things

Meena Sarine

#15. Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Lewis Carroll

#16. Of course you have days that are long, you're tired, and things aren't working out, and you can get frustrated, but I would say any of the things that make it less glamorous or cause some complexity or turn you down the road you weren't expecting to go down is a part of the thrill.

Ellen Page

#17. Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

Mary Oliver

#18. Is there anything fairer than morning?" she murmured, not expecting an answer.
He was quiet for a moment. "I can think of three things.

Rosslyn Elliott

#19. Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

Charles Studd

#20. Don't neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win.

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. Having interests translates as confidence to do and be things on your own without expecting a man to do and be for you. And confidence is attractive. Not to mention independence.

Belle De Jour

#22. But that age; remember that age? They're not the same. They don't put things together. That's why half of what they do looks full-on certifiable, to you or me or any sane adult. Things don't make sense, when you're that age; you don't make sense. You stop expecting to.

Tana French

#23. Confidence is always expecting a positive outcome. When you walk into a situation, be it personal or professional, when you expect things to go well, you are confident and more often than not, that confidence you exude is what attracts the positive result.

Malti Bhojwani

#24. This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.

C. JoyBell C.

#25. Been Contented goes beyond our material wants; contentment sets us free from the illusion of having more or "Better things", or expecting "better times" it sets us free from the illusion that somehow things should be different.

Martin Suarez

#26. I was half expecting it, but it still came as kind of a shock when the barrier stayed down. It's funny how some things can be so mixed up like that.

Gavin Extence

#27. We often fail to notice things that we are not expecting.

Lisa Randall

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The same road always leads to the same place. If we get on it expecting to go somewhere different, we'll be disappointed, won't we? As you said, it isn't very smart.
... Do the same things, get the same results. Simple, stupid.

Lisa Wingate

#31. faith is not hope, not a mere expectation of future things, but a present receiving of that which is promised in a real and substantial way. It is accepting, not expecting.

A.B. Simpson

#32. There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

Jeff Beck

#33. O sit and wait for joy to arrive without turning your mind to the things of Christ is like expecting the Holy Spirit to take 15 pounds off your body while sitting on the couch eating ice cream (p. 57).

Hayley DiMarco

#34. I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

Carlo Ancelotti

#35. I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

Matthew McConaughey

#36. My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.

Iris Apfel

#37. You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

Tom Hopkins

#38. Well, I'm expecting great things from you, young man!"
"Th-thank you, Brother Cyrus." As soon as he released my shoulders, I hurried over to the glass wall where Kiernan was sitting, frowning out at the ocean like it had done something to piss him off.

Rysa Walker

#39. That fool has no idea how to behave in polite society," his friend agreed. Apparently the polite thing to do was lie and insinuate horrible things with impunity, all while never expecting any repercussions.

Larry Correia

#40. It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#41. Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

Melody Beattie

#42. At some point Billy realized he was expecting the president to act, well, embarrassed? Ashamed? For how fucked up everything obviously was. But the commander in chief seemed well pleased with the state of things.

Ben Fountain

#43. I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

Alan Alda

#44. It's a poem, for crying out loud! The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times. But you know they're expecting one specific, so-called correct answer, and any other thoughtful response will be counted off. It's wrong to dissect poetry like this!

Wendy Higgins

#45. Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

George Bernard Shaw

#46. Even identical genital acts mean very different things to different people. This is a crucial point to remember, and also a difficult one. It reminds us that there is difference right where we may be looking for, and expecting, communion.

Maggie Nelson

#47. Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.

Tom Riley

#48. Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.

A.R. Rahman

#49. Too many people are expecting me to do things. I don't want to meet anyone's expectations. Be expected. I just want to-be. No explanations necessary. Me. Quiet. Anything more is too risky.

Amy McNamara

#50. 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

#51. We are only still alive because God is expecting us to do certain things today.

Sunday Adelaja

#52. Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

Joyce Meyer

#53. It is more than their land that you take away from the people whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see, and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take out their eyes.

Karen Blixen

#54. 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