Quotes About Expectancy

He didn't have any use for history because he never expected to meet it again. To his mind, history was connected with processions and life with parades and he liked parades.

Expectation, the second element, comes into play when we have reason to anticipate a different outcome.

God usually meets us at our level of expectancy. That's why, in many ways, your expectations will set the boundaries for your life. Jesus said, "According to your faith . . . be it done to you.

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

They greeted him enthusiastically as Caesar's son.

Some folks expect my music to sound like my dad's.

When you expect something, there's also a certain fear about whether or not that expectation will be fulfilled.

When will you come and how will you come and will we be ready

Poets die young. That is not just a cliché. The life expectancy of poets, as a group, trails playwrights, novelists, and nonfiction writers by a considerable margin. They have higher rates of "emotional disorders" than actors, musicians, composers, and novelists.

Raihana didn't know what to say to a man who was not her husband or relative. How could Kabir and Layla ask her to speak to this stranger? What did they want out of her? And then it struck her

Let waiting be our work, as it is His. And, if His waiting is nothing but goodness and graciousness, let ours be nothing but a rejoicing in that goodness, and a confident expectancy of that grace. And, let every thought of waiting become to us the simple expression of unmingled and unutterable blessedness, because it brings us to a God who waits that He may make Himself known to us perfectly as the gracious One.   My soul, wait thou only upon God!

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

Well, don't build me up so, and you won't have to tear me down.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well.

May I point out something? You always use true and truthfully, when you speak and when you write. Or you say: unexpectedly. But when do people ever speak truthfully and when do things ever happen unexpectedly? You know better than I that it's all a fraud and that one thing follows another and then another. I don't do anything truthfully anymore, Lenù. And I've learned to pay attention to things. Only idiots believe that they happen unexpectedly.