#expect

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#always #donations #expect #keep #most

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. ↗

— Aesop

#heard #our #pray #prayers #strive

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#actively #being #expected #first #future

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#closed #delight #expectation #good #good book

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#bad #combination #conjure #could #dangerous

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#expectations #experience #founded #images #memories

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#agency #agents #asked #bill #call

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was. ↗

— Carol Alt

#ever #expect #found #hockey #hockey player

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#everybody #expected #fully #hectic #him

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#ask #correction #disorder #expect #linguistic