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Quotes About Expectation

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.
~ Patricia Briggs
My mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was the truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something they think will get the results they want.
~ Patricia Briggs
The pack was better with Anna in it, in ways far more subtle than he or his da had expected. They had hoped for calm—they had not expected happy.
~ Patricia Briggs
A beast feels no remorse for the past nor hope for the future.
~ Patricia Briggs
Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
After this, anything might happen. Anything at all. - The End
~ Patricia C. Wrede
And on top of everything, Mairelon hadn't even said she looked nice.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Thank goodness that's over," she said, taking the crown off and throwing it across the cave. It hit the wall and bounced off with a harsh clang. "You shouldn't treat your crown like that, Your Majesty," Cimorene said, retrieving the iron circlet. "Of course I should," Kazul said. "It's expected. That's why we made it out of iron instead of something soft and bendable. ...
~ Patricia C. Wrede
When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would've prepared one in some way. This is not the case.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
It is better to be prepared for the rock that doesn't fall than to be hit on the head by the one that you didn't expect.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed.
~ Patricia McCormick
What is it that some women think a man who's been eatin' buffet all his life will suddenly settle in for the same menu every night once he tastes their cookin'?
~ Unknown
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~ Unknown
When you get what you wish for, it's never quite what you think it will be.
~ Patrick Carman
We believers have a main job: to preach the gospel to every person with the full expectation that many will hear the Word, believe, and begin to discover the deep love of God for themselves; it ought to be more than enough to keep us busy. "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
~ Unknown
As watchmen working through the night we need to come again and again with our petitions, but always knowing that each prayer, each petition is as perfumed incense to our God, giving us every expectation of an answer from our Loving Father.
~ Unknown
Qué estás esperando? ¿Una medalla?
~ Unknown
There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.
~ Patrick Hamilton
The past is experience, present is experiment, future is expectation so, lets use our experience in expectation for our expectation.
~ Unknown
No one loves you for what you have done, but for what you might do.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
If and When were planted, and Nothing grew." —Proverb
~ Unknown
If you go to a networking event with the idea of seeking a job, that's an expectation that will creep into all of your conversations, whether you realize it or not. You're going to subconsciously nudge your interactions into specific directions that will probably disrupt the natural flow of how they would otherwise go—to your detriment. If you speak to that same person and just seek to connect, chances are a very different connection will form.
~ Unknown
I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
~ Patrick Marber