Top 100 I Expect Quotes
#1. I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate.
William Donaldson
#2. I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect
Jane Green
#3. I expect the notions of personal freedom and representative government would appear radical to a slave of the corporate world." "A
Anthony Ryan
#4. When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
Ashley Judd
#5. If only I can find him ... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?
Sylvia Plath
#6. Brynn began to turn away, but he grabbed her by the arms. "Ah. Ah. No running away. I asked you a question, I expect an answer. How have I played with you? There's no doubt in my mind that I'd remember doing such and I guarantee you would.
Madison Thorne Grey
#7. We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.
Libba Bray
#8. But, chiquita, you must understand that while you are here, I expect you to come to me and share your fears. Even if I am the one causing them.
Cherise Sinclair
#9. Two kinds of clarity support habit formation: clarity of values and clarity of action. The clearer I am about what I value, and what action I expect from myself - not what other people value, or expect from me - the more likely I am to stick to my habits.
Gretchen Rubin
#10. Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and more of it in the immediate future. When people feel empowered to come together and raise their voices, also will mean raising their voices in song as well.
Peter Yarrow
#11. Antonia! This is your father speaking. Unless you've swooned onto the floor, I expect you to get yourself out here immediately.
Jane Carter Barrett
#12. My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.
Ryan Lilly
#13. He leans forward slightly, lips pulling back against his even, white teeth. It's so aggressive and animalistic I expect to see fangs. "I am your rightful king, Silver-born for centuries," he replies, seething. "The only reason you're still breathing is because I can't burn the oxygen from this room.
Victoria Aveyard
#14. You are ... Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. -Bella
Stephenie Meyer
#15. My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.
Tiger Woods
#16. law of iterated expectations, which I outline here in its strong form: if I expect to expect something at some date in the future, then I already expect that something at present.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#17. I continue to see good growth in the mobile space; I expect to see PCs being the core driver in the home. And I mean that for entertainment along with the work-at-home space.
Jim Allchin
#18. What did I expect to happen tomorrow? Did I want things to go further with Callahan? Or was I holding back because I still harbored feelings for Fin?
Brenda Pandos
#19. Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.
David Lee Roth
#21. He looked confused. "With your girlfriend, I mean. Who was to blame?"
"I don't know," I said. "Ultimately Churchill, I expect.
Timur Vermes
#22. You made plenty, Abby. We just wanted to tide ourselves over until next year ... unless you'd like to do this all over again at Christmas. You're a Maddox, now. I expect you at every holiday, and not to cook.
Jamie McGuire
#23. I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.
George Voinovich
#24. If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing.
Billy The Kid
#25. What did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers.
Peter Shaffer
#26. I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.
Picabo Street
#27. Rina's always claimed that I expect too little from life," Standard said.
"Then at least you'll never be disappointed.
James Sallis
#28. I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.
Lee Scott
#29. I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.
Maggie Stiefvater
#30. Want your obedience. I expect it - no, I demand it. I don't relish nor will I enjoy the idea of punishing you. So if you seek to bait me so that you enjoy the thrill of discipline, you're sure to be disappointed.
Maya Banks
#31. When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.
Maria Semple
#32. I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.
Johnny Cash
#33. I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.
Patrick White
#34. If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras.
"Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever."
"Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.
David Gemmell
#35. No one really expects me to do anything offensively. But I expect a little more.
J. J. Hardy
#36. Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?
Don McCullin
#37. I'm not asking either of you," my husband answered sharply. "I expect you to mount her. I expect you to fuck her. I expect you to make her come. And I expect her to let you.
Sierra Simone
#38. Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.
Stephen Fry
#39. Ross said, "They play even during an attack. Not very good. But inspiring. Have you heard the Rebel yell?" Fremantle nodded. "Godawful sound. I expect they learned it from Indians.
Michael Shaara
#40. I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.
Geoffrey Fieger
#41. My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
Edward Weston
#42. No, but I have passed the point in life where I expect to be satisfied," Augustus said. "At least I don't expect to be satisfied with much. When it comes right down to it, Woodrow, I guess my own cooking beats anything I've come across in this life.
Larry McMurtry
#43. Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.
Harriet Tubman
#44. I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.
Karen Joy Fowler
#45. I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
Tom Ford
#47. I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
Sandra Bullock
#48. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.
Marc Andreessen
#49. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.
Henry David Thoreau
#50. Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.
Alex Ferguson
#51. Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection ... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.
Lil' Kim
#52. How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#53. I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I'm disillusioned and don't want to struggle to make things clear.
Anais Nin
#54. I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.
Frank Robinson
#55. I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
Thurgood Marshall
#56. My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
Dolly Parton
#57. It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.
Chris Christie
#58. Is that what you think I am? All this time, and you still haven't sorted it out? Why am I surprised? You didn't notice me when we were on the Jana. You couldn't even remember my name back then, so why should I expect you to understand - to see me for what I am now!
Susan Dennard
#59. I came to Tasmania in search of an elusive species. And I found it. But never in my wildest dreams did I expect to find you. And I believe I found a type of butterfly that exists only in my belly which makes itself known when I think of you.
N.R. Walker
#60. I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#61. Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks to do - just jam it up the middle.
Jon Gruden
#62. I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.
Mark Martin
#63. The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.
Mike Thompson
#65. With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead and before I have the pleasure of seeing you I expect another.
John Hawley
#66. You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.
Kate Millett
#67. If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people."
"And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.
Sherwood Smith
#68. Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.
Saint Patrick
#69. I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
Lucy Stone
#70. Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
R.A. Salvatore
#71. Do you think God knows what's happenin?
I expect he does.
You think he can stop it?
No. I dont.
Cormac McCarthy
#72. We've both seen bonded couples and how stormy their courtships were in the beginning. If my new cousin is half as stubborn as you, I expect fireworks - and not the good kind.
Karen Lynch
#73. The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
Rem Koolhaas
#74. I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
Don Ellis
#76. One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.
Douglas Adams
#77. You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
Lawrence Durrell
#78. With the physical mindset I play the game with, I expect to get hurt.
Steve McNair
#79. I expect more from my life than the opportunity to be useful to a man.
Kim Wright
#80. I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.
Meg Rosoff
#81. I expect to play golf until I am 90-even longer if anybody figures out a way to swing a club from a rocking chair.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
#82. When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
Parker Palmer
#83. You know, Eric, I could have sworn I heard a goat bleating while I was working in the slype yesterday evening.
I expect the Dean had separated it from the sheep, Eric said solemnly. Isn't that what clergy are for?
Catherine Aird
#84. I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.
Frida Giannini
#85. I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.
Albert Oehlen
#86. The gods know, happiness is a precious and rare commodity, and indeed it seems that the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.
Steven Erikson
#87. Never in my life did I expect to hold a gun, let alone fire one. It feels dangerous to me, as if just by touching it, I could hurt someone.
Veronica Roth
#88. My eyes are open," said Milo warmly, "and I see exactly what I expect to see. I see a man who is terribly wounded - because he has dared to pass through the fires of truth to the other side, which we have never seen. And then he has come back again - to tell us about the other side.
Kurt Vonnegut
#89. I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter.
Jean Cocteau
#90. I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#91. No, the hurts of the mind were too strange, too invisible, too magical to hope for the same kind of tolerance and help from even the best of people. It frightens me, thought DeAnne. Why should I expect others to be better than I am?
Orson Scott Card
#92. I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.
Greg Maddux
#93. It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you are lying on your death bead, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.
Joe Abercrombie
#94. Should I expect her to always love me best, and most, and only?
Patrick Rothfuss
#95. Before I expected failure, and was astonished at deliverance; now I expect deliverance, and am astonished at failure."4 Though
Melvin E. Dieter
#96. There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.
David Ben-Gurion
#97. I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
Gabourey Sidibe
#98. In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.
Chandler Riggs
#99. Are you deaf as well as blind, woman? I'm not a carpet to walk over, and I distinctly heard myself speak. If I pinch your bottom, you can slap my face, but until I do, I expect a civil word for a civil word!
Robert Jordan
#100. When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement.
Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
Albert Camus
