Quotes About Expectation

Assume makes an ass out of you and me.

Americans go into situations expecting things to go well. When they don't, we have meltdowns. The French go into situations expecting things not to go in their favor, so they're prepared when they don't.

14th June, 1872.—On 22nd June Stanley was 100 days gone: he must be in London now.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

God is not a genie in a bottle, and your wish is not His command. His command better be your wish.

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.

God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.