Expecting Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Albert Einstein)
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. View quote
Lynne Cheney
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. View quote
Alan Turing
When I talk about love I'm thinking of unselfish love. Sex can be bought and sold just like anything else. But I think real love is about giving and not expecting anything in return. View quote
Bono
There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless. View quote
Thom Yorke
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration. View quote
C. T. Studd
You and I will meet again When we're least expecting it. One day in some far off place I will recognize your face. I won't say good-bye my friend, For you and I will meet again. View quote
Tom Petty
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. (Charles Kettering)
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment. View quote
Alex Winter
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. View quote
Christie Hefner
The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff. View quote
Sally Schneider
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. View quote
Samuel Johnson
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. View quote
Hans Blix
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration. View quote
Bertrand Russell
You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it. View quote
Thucydides
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. (Douglas Adams)
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I speak and speak, ... but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. ... It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. View quote
Marco Polo