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Quotes About Expectancy

He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.
~ Augusten Burroughs
By 1917, a British fighter pilot arriving at the front had an average life expectancy of less than three months.
~ Adam Hochschild
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
~ Piper Laurie
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
~ Ezra Pound
He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.
~ Terry Pratchett
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Parents expect their children to be their soul mates in the same way they expect of their spouse—they want children to make their lives and families complete.
~ Jessica Valenti
When she married Jeremy she had assumed there was money in the background. It hadn't quite worked out that way.
~ Ann Cleeves
If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?
~ Gene Wilder
I like people who are devoted to me: men who know I'm the most fabulous thing in the world, and they just look at me with adoration. That's how my dad looked at my mom, and that's how I expected to be looked at.
~ Angela Bowie
We teenage girls are faced with a quandary: we know what we want but are forced to wait for our male counterparts to grow up. We are ready for intense and meaningful relationships, but research indicates that males will not reach maturity until their mid-20s.
~ Alexandra Adornetto
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
~ Fran Lebowitz
materialize miracles in the world are your thoughts, your feelings, your words and your deeds. Exercise your mind to think only thoughts that serve your ascent to mastery and happiness. Sit regularly in feelings of gratitude, positive expectancy and love for all that you have in your life. Speak only the words of upliftment, abundance and encouragement
~ Robin S. Sharma
When you learn to take control of your thoughts and vividly imagine all that you desire from this worldly existence in a state of total expectancy, dormant forces will awaken inside you. You will begin to unlock the true potential of your mind to create the kind of magical life that I believe you deserve. From tonight onwards, forget about the past. Dare to dream that you are more than the sum of your current circumstances. Expect the best. You will be astonished at the results.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Short Life Syndrome. Night watchmen in horror movies have a life expectancy of twelve seconds. SAM WAAs, Houston
~ Roger Ebert
But there may never be enough to satisfy shareholders who expect to win back one hundred times their initial twenty billion dollar bet.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.
~ Saib Tabrizi
Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
~ Muriel Spark
The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.
~ Frankie Boyle
Hoping for a thing often seems the best way o' bringing on the opposite
~ Joe Abercrombie
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
~ Annie Lennox
My investors expect me to maximize profits.
~ Martin Shkreli
it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after all that, nobody comes to see them. I feel so bad, but what can you do? Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors Ã¢â'¬Â¦ No, it isn't.
~ Fannie Flagg