Stopped Expecting Quotes

#1. Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

Andre Dubus III

#2. Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

Erica Jong

#3. I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented directors, and they didn't work. And my next two films were with newcomers, and they worked well. So I've stopped expecting anything from my movies.

Sonam Kapoor

#4. I loosened my grip on my opinions. I entered recovery for being such a know-it-all. I stopped expecting everyone to experience God or church or life like I thought it should be done. In fact, I stopped using the word should about God altogether, I sought God, and he was faithful to answer me.

Sarah Bessey

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

Cora Carmack

#6. Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here ... It comes just when we've stopped expecting anything, stopped hoping, stopped being afraid.

Irene Nemirovsky

#7. Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.

Greg Behrendt

#8. When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Mark Twain

#9. There is no way at all that Diana was mentally unstable. There is nothing wrong with expecting your husband to be faithful and being angry when he isn't. Diana had every reason to believe that Charles and Camilla never stopped seeing each other.

Hasnat Khan

#10. Hatred had invaded her entire being; every cell in her body had hatred in it. She wondered if everyone could smell it on her. It smelled like death and coffee, like lilies and dirt, and it permeated her.

R.L. Griffin

#11. I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember.

Chade-Meng Tan

#12. That's stupid." I stopped to look at him. "why would you want everyone assuming something that isn't true?"
"Why should I care?"
"So you can ask someone you're interested in to go to the dance with you," I replied, not expecting his lack of concern.
"I just did.

Rebecca Donovan

#13. Watch your step," said Slash.
Jig stopped, fully expecting to be shot, poisoned, crushed, or maybe all three at the same time. "What is it now?"
Slash pointed to a pile of brown, slimy goo in the center of the tunnel. "Hairball.

Jim C. Hines

#14. American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

Tony Snow

#15. If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

Charlie Munger

#16. Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

Stephen Hawking

#17. Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise,
He who defers this work from day to day,
Does on a river's bank expecting stay,
Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone,
That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.

Abraham Cowley

#18. Beautiful Savior, King of creation, Son of God, and Son of Man! Truly I love Thee, Truly I serve Thee Light of my soul, my joy, my crown. Fair are the meadows, fair are the woodlands, Robed in flow'rs of blooming spring

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#19. This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!

Edward Everett

#20. I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon as they gave you two life sentences, I stopped believing in their time.

John Berger

#21. The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.

Rabindranath Tagore

#22. Is My Son Marshall Myu son Eminem okay for an 11 year old to read? Why?

Debbie Nelson