Quotes About Expectancy

Then wait expectantly in My Presence, ready to receive My Peace in full measure. If you like, you can express your openness by saying, "Jesus, I receive Your Peace.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

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.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

That ought to go well. Watch out for flying hedgehogs!

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

everybody else thought it was there because it was supposed

She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled.

There was something defenceless, it seemed to Scobie, in his whole attitude: he stood there waiting for people to be friendly or unfriendly- he didn't seem to expect some reaction more than another. He was like a dog. Nobody had yet drawn on his face the lines that make a human being.

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

For decades, life expectancy steadily rose in Britain: and then, suddenly, just as the Tories took power and imposed austerity, this improvement ground to a halt.

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

Oh expectation, what a frightful thing art thou, when kindled more by fear than hope!

I became particularly interested in how perceptions are formed, how they govern the way we see, and how the way we see governs how we behave. This led me to a study of expectancy theory and self-fulfilling prophecies or the "Pygmalion effect," and to a realization of how deeply imbedded our perceptions are. It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

But the fact that experts' assertions about maximum possible life expectancy have repeatedly been shattered (on average five years after they were published) raises the question of whether longevity will increase indefinitely and someday slip the surly bonds of mortality entirely.

No, she wanted me to beg her to do what she wanted to do. Like all women, she wanted me to offer her what she desired. I have been rolled.

Where relationships are warm and expectancies fresh, we are already beginning to enjoy the life together that will be completed in our life everlasting.

The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing.

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

He talked of his dreams in a strangely poetic fashion; making me see with terrible vividness the damp Cyclopean city of slimy green stone—whose geometry, he oddly said, was all wrong—and hear with frightened expectancy the ceaseless, half-mental calling from underground: "Cthulhu fhtagn", "Cthulhu fhtagn".

I've got a tough act to follow.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.