Quotes of: Expecting Keyword

I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.

Kim Cattrall

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

Roberta Williams

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

Sheryl Sandberg

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

V. S. Naipaul

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Robert E. Lee

I once asked Randy how he knew that he had fallen in love with his girlfriend, Amy, and he just looked at me like it was the hardest question in the world. I expected some floral, florid explanation, about the air lightening and flute music filling h...

How They Met, and Other Stories

Pamela pulled off her cloak and Alexei gasped. "You have on breeches!" He stared in disbelief. "Breeches!" "I've never worn them before, and they are extremely comfortable. I quite like them." She smoothed the fabric over her hip. "Besides, you don't...

When We Meet Again

She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even legible. "What's wrong with it?" I asked her. "It's not good enough yet. You have to tr...

When You Were Here

I am not going to give you disclaimers about what you can expect to find in my story. I went through menopause recently and find I don't much care about anyone's sensibilities anymore. I am called BadSquirrel for a reason. Considering how incredibly ...

Warriors of the Heart

Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate ...

The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living

I had a dream about you. Again. In fact I've had so many dreams about you that I can almost feel your skin under my fingertips and your breath every time we kiss. This time when you pulled me closer, even though I couldn’t see you, I knew it was yo...

Dreaming is for lovers

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when its literary tropes are all too familiar, its ...

Tim Parks

Isaac Davis: You certainly fooled me. [crosstalk] Mary Wilke: What do you mean? Isaac Davis: I mean, I was shocked. 'cause that's not what - this is not what I expected. Mary Wilke: What did you expect? Isaac Davis: I don't know. You said you, you kn...

Manhattan

...She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself.

Close Encounters

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

The Charioteer

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

Consumer Behaviour: A European Perspective

Dream: Defying Reality Expecting A Miracle! Dare to dream!

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.

Cruddy

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

Damned

You can't expect to reap a harvest that you're not willing to plant.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

Damned