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Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life — Maya Banks

I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now ... I've grown as a player and as a man. — Josh Howard

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. — Theodore Isaac Rubin

Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal? — Hanya Yanagihara

A man in Thailand was arrested with more than 10,000 pairs of stolen underwear. Legal experts are expecting a brief trial. — Jimmy Fallon

Chaos is only chaos to the people who aren't expecting it. — Jeremy Robinson

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all. — Wallace Shawn

I pray for the ability to love you without expecting any return. — Debasish Mridha

although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness — Colum McCann

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence. — Michael Bassey Johnson

One of the happiest moments of life is when you learn to love without expecting any return. — Debasish Mridha

Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) — Deborah L. McCarragher

Irregularity is inherent in our very nature; expecting people to be perfectly wise is as crazy as putting wings on dogs or horns on eagles — Voltaire

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. — Gore Vidal

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting. — Peter Jacobson

I will rather have a hospital in every city to cure people of diseases on daily basis than sitting in church and expecting miracles.. — Sunday Adelaja

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness. — Taissa Farmiga

I'm expecting a miracle. Don't taint it with logic. — Ofir Touche Gafla

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be. — Alain De Botton

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy. — Sheryl Sandberg

I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out. — MaryJanice Davidson

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give. — Melody Beattie

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer. — Frederick Buechner

I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen — Ryan Hall

The definition of insanity is doing what you've always done and expecting different results. — Jane Green

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected. — Mariska Hargitay

I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God — William Carey

It often has been said that unforgiveness is like you drinking poison but expecting the other person to die. — Nancy Alcorn

Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more. — Christopher Paolini

I miss Gus ... I get to expecting to hear him talk and he ain't here. My ears sort of get empty. — Larry McMurtry

the way of men. One fights one's battles alone, not asking mercy nor expecting help. — Louis L'Amour

Well, fuck me. I was expecting someone-"
"With a penis and a deep voice? Sorry to disappoint. — Samantha Towle

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive — Joseph Weizenbaum

My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. — Chuck Nevitt

You take them home expecting a nice English cucumber, but regrettably end up with a pickle. — Harlow Stone

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way. — George R. Stewart

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes. — Norman Vincent Peale

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing. — Cliff Robertson

Joseph habitually scowled at furniture, expecting it to be impertinent, mischievous, or dusty. — John Steinbeck

Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for! — Daisaku Ikeda

There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that. — Andriy Shevchenko

It's so tempting to resist a little gift
when you're expecting the otherwise. — Toba Beta

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Life gets easier when you stop caring and expecting things to get better! — Nehali Lalwani

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else. — Robert G. Thompson

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you. — Wayne Dyer

Expecting conceit they found courtesy. Expecting arrogance they found a man concerned with people's thoughts and feelings. — Jackie Collins

Bet you weren't expecting this," before my other hand grabbed the back of her head and used all my body weight to slam her head into the table. — Tijan

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose. — Eric Davis

Do everything you need to do first before expecting a miracle. — Sunday Adelaja

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough. — Johnny Depp

When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you. — Debasish Mridha

Inspire others without expecting anything in return. True joy is in giving. — Debasish Mridha

You know, dear, sometimes you find what you're looking for, but not what you're expecting" -The Great Moodler — Paige Britt

Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

We often fail to notice things that we are not expecting. — Lisa Randall

I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me. — Carmelo Anthony

The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different. — Stephen Covey

Sometimes it's good to give people something they're not expecting. — Carrie Jones

I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing. — Bill Hader

People always ask me to list my greatest accomplishments, expecting me to rattle off a bunch of movies I've made, but what I'm proudest of is my kids. — Mel Gibson

You've gotten under my skin," he said. I wasn't expecting that. "I don't think I'll ever be able to shed you. — Karina Halle

The other girl was fifteen, and she was expecting — Danielle Steel

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds. — John Lawler

Today, say something nice to someone who isn't expecting you to. — Sherise Seven

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment. — Samuel Johnson

A godlike person is always giving and forgiving but not expecting anything. — Debasish Mridha

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. — Dorothy L. Sayers

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly. — Scott Westerfeld

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting. — Victoria Osteen

We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time. — C.S. Lewis

Um ... Mercer? Haven't seen you in nearly a month. I was expecting something like, 'Oh Cross, love of my heart, fire of my loins, how I've longed
— Rachel Hawkins

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different. — Anthony Kiedis

The great test of faith is to wait on God ... not expecting to push a button and get whatever we want now. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

People tend to invert the most natural order of life, which is to move before things happen, instead of expecting things to happen to move. — Robin Sacredfire

If you are expecting something in return for your love, you are not loving truly. — Debasish Mridha

Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours? — Stephen Davey

You can't have an up without a down, a left without a right - and you can't have good times without expecting bad. — Harlan Coben

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind. — Jarvis Cocker

I beat myself up in the studio because I know that a lot of people are expecting me to fail. — Jessica Simpson

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that. — Amy Winehouse

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting? — Eric Thomas

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that. — Joseph Kosinski

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father. — Andre Dubus III

Stop expecting more from us than we can possibly provide, and you'll stop being so disappointed. — Shalom Auslander

People are shit. The day you stop expecting decency from them is the day you'll free yourself from getting hurt. — L. H. Cosway

Love is doing a kindness for someone else, not expecting to receive anything in return. — Sylvain Reynard

Just because it's not what you're expecting doesn't mean it's not everything you might need. — K. Bromberg

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill. — Christie Hefner

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. — May Sarton

I mean, realistically, what was I expecting here? A sarcophagus built for two? — Colleen Houck

I wasn't expecting a stealth, supersonic, vertical take-off submarine fueled by the eerily whistling ghosts of necromantically murdered dolphins. — Charles Stross

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt. — Courtney Summers

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. — Seneca.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard. — Arthur Miller

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting. — Lakshmi

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. — Criss Jami

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results. — Starhawk

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting. — Esther Hicks