Quotes of: Expecting Keyword

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.

Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.

A Dom is Forever

If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

The Darkest Minds

Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.

Darkling

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

The Daughter of Time

Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon; you have not thoroughly learned to know each other's foibles by that time.

Don'ts for Wives

And he’d expected her to feel like heaven, plus nirvana, plus that scene in Willy Wonka where Charlie starts to fly.

Eleanor & Park

It says 'Bet you were expecting a heart, shaped like a compass...'" Jack paused and pulled the note off the bow tie. "...And then he drew a frowny face.

Evertrue

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Great Expectations

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Great Expectations

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

Great Expectations

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

Great Expectations

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Great Expectations

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

The Goose Girl

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

The Guardian

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

In the Heart of the Country

The world around us    conforms to expectations       we place upon it.

Haiku to Live By: Life affirming messages, to hearten your day

It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast.

The Hunger Games

NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. No one expected me to live, and therefore, I did. Always.

Bitter Blood