Sorry For Expecting Too Much Quotes

#1. After a week of silence Julian finally phones and I nervously tell him of Hamilton's offer, fully expecting him to go crazy.

Lynda Renham

#2. Trust comes by earning it, not expecting it.

Katie Kacvinsky

#3. Joseph habitually scowled at furniture, expecting it to be impertinent, mischievous, or dusty.

John Steinbeck

#4. Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

Arthur Symons

#5. Goodnight, Nash."
His lips twist into a wry smile. I wonder what he was expecting. "Good night, beautiful Olivia.

M. Leighton

#6. The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

David Estes

#7. The flawed human error is expecting someone else to build the world we desire, rather than creating it for ourselves.

Shawn Stern

#8. When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Donald Miller

#9. My dad used to say the definition of stupidity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Or maybe that was the definition of crazy.

David Estes

#10. {In the shadows where the ancestors sleep, the bird's song is young, but all else is old. Stillness surrounds me and I breathe softly expecting the unexpected.} from book in progress

Nancy B. Brewer

#11. So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn't want. Instead I was embraced.

Kiera Cass

#12. But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.

Larry McMurtry

#13. Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

Jan Mark

#14. Anyone expecting injustice does not keep a collection of injustices.

Marianne Fredriksson

#15. Compassion basically means accepting people's frailties, their weaknesses, not expecting them to behave like gods. That expectation is cruelty.

Osho

#16. ... so that any time anyone looked up, expecting out of habit to see Shola, they caught his eye, and shared a moment with him, and the hole in the world was known and acknowledged.

Nick Harkaway

#17. Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

Tom Brokaw

#18. Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

Simon Sinek

#19. A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. What I wasn't expecting was the euphoria once my body began releasing endorphins. The mixture of pain and pleasure was ecstasy. Getting my tattoo introduced me to secret, dark pleasures. I would always be a marked prisoner, but I was a liberated soul.

Scarlet Risque

#21. Expecting people to read your mind hardly ever gets you what you desire.

Sue Patton Thoele

#22. You dont have to know a soul to know what I know
to expect what I'm expecting
to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day
When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse

Jack Kerouac

#23. Don't go to Casablanca expecting it to be like the film. In fact, if you're not too busy, and your schedule allows it, don't go to Casablanca at all.

Hugh Laurie

#24. She did not delude herself into expecting Francis to love her. He had never been taught how to love, but had an arresting way of looking pleased at Adah's achievements.

Buchi Emecheta

#25. I wasn't sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I'd braced myself for disgust or anger. But she just
looked at me like I was - nothing. An annoyance, maybe.

Maggie Stiefvater

#26. Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

Warren Buffett

#27. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.

Uzoma Nnadi

#28. But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

Pete Docter

#29. If you were expecting Prince Charming, I'm sorry. He's with his boyfriend.

Shayla Black

#30. Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

Chris Pine