#expect

I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced to every niece and sister-in-law in a hundred miles. In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#love #marriage #patience #love

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#found #i #just #kind #less

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#expected #give #great #gymnastics #i

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#cup #expect #experience #first #first world

We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean. ↗

— David Jones

#down #expect #farms #florida #get

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#editor #encouragement #expect #kind #love

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#all nations #cannot #conformity #enemy #expect

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#always #could #expected #expensive #had

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. ↗

— David Knopfler

#club #creative #expectation #figured #fit