Definition of Expecting

Expecting

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.
Jimmy Buffett

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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.
Tom Hopkins

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
Elliott Smith

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
David Swift

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

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

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.
Eva Braun

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
Neil Diamond

I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.
Anjelica Huston

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold H. Glasow

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 goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
Tom Petty

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Judith Martin

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
Francois Rabelais

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

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles Kettering

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
Dan O'Brien

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.
Alex Winter

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
Olivier Martinez

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.
Conrad Hall

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.
Amy Grant

What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.
Eric Cantor

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
Augusten Burroughs

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