Expect Something For Nothing Quotes

#1. The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.

Allen Shawn

#2. There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

E.W. Howe

#3. Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.

John Ridley

#4. Do not expect something for nothing. Be willing to give an equivalent value for all that you desire, and include in your plans a definite provision for doing so.

Napoleon Hill

#5. Be deliberate in your choices. We are created to do what we are called to do and what we are born to experience, not what we believe other people expect us to do. Your time is precious.

Julie Connor

#6. When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

Anna Julia Cooper

#8. You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and forget.

Kevin Hearne

#9. My leg hurts," the soldier whined.
"Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?

John Flanagan

#10. If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing

J.M. Darhower

#11. While one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of personal representation in this freestcountry on the face of the globe, it is idle for us to expect that the men who thus rob women will not rob each other as individuals, corporations and Government.

Susan B. Anthony

#12. I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

Barry Sanders

#14. I would expect another Scars album before another System album.

Daron Malakian

#15. Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

Horace

#16. What a magical place," she whispered in an awed voice. "I expect a unicorn or fairies to appear."
"What would the fairies be doing?" Shermont asked. "Waltzing with the butterflies," she answered before thinking.

Laurie Brown

#17. You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you?

Eva Longoria

#18. Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.

Osama Bin Laden

#19. The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.

F. Ross Johnson

#20. People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

Claudia Rankine

#21. My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Charles Dickens

#22. It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.

Amy Poehler

#23. They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.

Kamila Shamsie

#24. Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!

Benjamin Franklin

#25. A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

Arthur Dean

#26. I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own.

Mark Goddard

#27. If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.

Deborah Roberts

#28. Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

Nancy Werlin

#29. Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted to our last breath.

Benedicta Ward

#30. The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:

Anthony Bourdain

#31. If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

Christopher Hitchens

#32. I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.

Angie Stone

#33. The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"

Peter Drucker

#34. The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Tony Abbott

#35. Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

Anne Hathaway

#36. In a group of intelligent men expect only one to be wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#37. When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Ron Paul

#38. You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#39. We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#40. The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"

William Arthur Ward

#41. There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Christopher Morley

#42. Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?

Karen Marie Moning

#43. Let mortal man keep to his own
Mortality, and not expect too much.

Euripides

#44. in your deeds and in your works, don't expect to start reaping just as you start sowing.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#45. It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Francis Bacon

#46. When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.

M. Russell Ballard