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Quotes About Expectation

If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.
~ Heraclitus
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
~ Terence
When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'
~ Paul Merson
He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.
~ Joe Garagiola
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, come forth from deep within me with Christmas luminous beauty.
~ Edward M Hays
Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!
~ Norm MacDonald
Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.
~ Charlie Viracola
Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.
~ Cassandra Clare
They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.
~ George Herbert
Don't spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.
~ Toni Sorenson
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
~ Russell Baker
Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.
~ Justin Bieber
According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.
~ Unknown
We're prepared, and we've done everything we can to prepare for this moment in time. That's what confidence is all about.
~ Lisa Fernandez
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
A.J. Bryant is a player waiting to happen. If he gets a little confidence going and a couple of catches, he can really do some big things for us.
~ Mark Richt
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
~ Joseph Heller
Don't be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.
~ Unknown
It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!
~ Robin Roberts
If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.
~ Joe Orton
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
~ George Eliot