Expecting The Best Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done. — Marilyn Manson

Expecting the best is not about always being right. It is about a belief in yourself and in your team. — Mark Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it. — Seth Gordon

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! — Jerry Garcia

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. — Jodi Picoult