Top 100 Quotes About Expects
#1. When showering life-giving words on another human, don't just pick the people you know well. Notice the one who least expects to be noticed.
Karen Ehman
#2. Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.
Bertrand Russell
#4. My audience expects cold, hard truth. They don't expect me to dance around it. They expect me to say it the way they think it. That's part of my brand. If I don't do that, then my audience goes, 'What's up? Is he sick or something? What's wrong with him?' The entity has a brand.
Roland Martin
#5. If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?
Sara Sheridan
#6. After all, I'm already a murderer. No one really expects a murderer to stop killing.
Holly Black
#7. I was finally convinced of something I had suspected for a long time: God has a sense of humor, and because the world is wondrous, God expects us to find reasons to smile even on the darkest days.
Dean Koontz
#8. This charity ... They quibble too much over procedures ... while we seek a cure. They complain too loudly against another who, seemingly, has perfected a work that the public expects its charity dollars to do. Maybe we should investigate the American Cancer Society's operations.
Roland V. Libonati
#10. The brain, as busy as it can be, is actually very lazy...It sees what it expects to see
James R. Doty
#11. Everyone expects to be at the end of something. What no one expects is to be at the end of everything.
Marcel Theroux
#12. The tone of his voice is like he expects a fight, like he's challenging me to disagree, and I want to tell him that I don't care one way or the other. That her blood-relative status makes no difference as long as she loves him. And she does. She wears it, beaming it around like a neon sign.
Brenna Yovanoff
#13. At the judgment, in response to our questions, the Lord will show us his wounds, and we will understand. In the meantime, however, he simply expects us to stand by him and to believe what these wounds tell us, even though we cannot work right through the logic of this world.
Pope Benedict XVI
#14. The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
Dan Simmons
#15. Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
John Green
#17. I listen to all sorts of music, but I'm not musically talented. Everyone expects me to be a good singer or musician, but I really am terrible. I'm a great dancer, though.
Jade Jagger
#19. If it is necessary we will find a quick answer and it will not be the way the United States expects it. It will be an answer that devalues the 'Star Wars' program.
Sergey Akhromeyev
#20. Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.
Orson Welles
#21. But I was starving! You know I always forget my lunch - and who expects me to concentrate on Advanced Manga Drawing Level 2 when visions of pork buns and powdered doughnuts dance in my head? Teacher Suzuki acted like it was the end of the world just because I got hungry,
Bunny Lilka
Tiffany Fulton
#22. The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.
Warren Buffett
#23. What God expects us to attempt, He also enables us to achieve.
Stephen F Olford
#24. I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.
Benjamin Franklin
#25. One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}
Martin Heidegger
#26. I get the sense that his word is always the last spoken and his wishes the first ones to be fulfilled. He doesn't ask, he demands. He doesn't hope, he expects.
Mia Asher
#27. The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.
Vivek Wadhwa
#29. The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.
Paul Henderson
#30. God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
Manny Pacquiao
#31. With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#32. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#33. Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten
#34. Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#35. The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
Henry David Thoreau
#36. It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.
Kevin Spacey
#37. People who get his kind of result are ... She looks over her shoulder like she expects someone to appear behind her ... are called ... Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#38. Well," said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, "one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art.
Gregory Maguire
#39. Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.
Juliet Marillier
#40. You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself,
James McBride
#41. Adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
Ambrose Bierce
#42. The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
Laozi
#44. School is only hard when you care about doing well. And when you're the stupid one in the family, no one expects you to do well.
Lauren Oliver
#45. A sit-down with your direct boss and establish what she expects you to be focusing on in the first days and weeks of the job. Take
Kate White
#46. Totally self-reliant, he is a master negotiator. He believes no one, expects the worst of people, distrusts his allies and adversaries alike and makes no pretense at intimacy.
Mark Stevens
#47. The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.
Ray Kurzweil
#49. Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
Sivananda
#50. America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.
Peter Kreeft
#51. I can't think straight. But why am I trying to do that anyway? Everybody else thinks straight. That's why nobody expects me to think zigzag-hop.
Frances Hardinge
#52. No one really expects me to do anything offensively. But I expect a little more.
J. J. Hardy
#53. I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.
Philip Schultz
#54. If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
Saint Augustine
#55. 13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands.
13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.
Zadie Smith
#56. A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand.
Anthony Liccione
#57. A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?
Confucius
#59. Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
George H. W. Bush
#60. If life is demanding something from us then it expects us to supply the answers to those things it is demanding from us.
Sunday Adelaja
#61. We live in a culture that expects instantaneous gratification for everything, and the web has only enhanced that in many ways. It empowers in many ways, but it also makes people believe 'I should have everything right now.'
Tony Robbins
#62. The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.
R.A. Torrey
#63. The things we remember the clearest aren't necessarily the big, heart-stopping moments everyone expects. They're the little things that add up. The little things most people look over but that mean the most.
Emma Hart
#64. I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.
Chevy Chase
#65. Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
Meher Baba
#66. I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
Bennie Thompson
#67. All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
John Grant
#68. Play the hand you have, Antonio, that's all anybody expects. And it's a pretty good hand." "I'm
Robert Goolrick
#69. We grew up in a very demanding environment. Dad expects us to prove ourselves ... so my siblings and I worked hard to reach what we have today, and I guess we have to continue working hard to maintain it.
Teresita Sy-Coson
#70. Everyone expects us to be assholes nowadays. I think we've let them down. We're regular dudes and dorky kids. Success doesn't mean you have to change.
Mikey Way
#71. I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.
James Longstreet
#72. God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.
Louis Zamperini
#73. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
#74. The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.
Kevin DeYoung
#75. Schwarzenegger said last night on the show he expects his opponents to throw all kinds of dirt at him. And you know, it's started already. Today, they released the one thing that could really hurt Arnold. Turns out he once starred in a movie with Tom Arnold.
Jay Leno
#76. My past is what God expects me to use to help others through their present.
Toni Sorenson
#77. The weight of her expectations crumble me. I've always done the right thing. She expects me to make good choices but I don't even know what good choices look like...
S.M. Parker
#78. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more. Often,
Markus Zusak
#79. God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.
Charles R. Swindoll
#80. My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.
Charles Francis Richter
#81. Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.
Tanith Lee
#82. No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.
William Wilberforce
#83. The art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine the art the room expects.
Michael Cunningham
#84. Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don't have to prove anything, I'm not rushing everywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.
Isabel Allende
#85. I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor ... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
Callan McAuliffe
#86. No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.
Murray Leinster
#87. I'm just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me.
Rollo May
#88. He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.
W. Edwards Deming
#89. Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men ... This is what God expects of us
John Taylor
#90. That light is bright enough to light up a little speck of the night sky so a man can see it a ways away. That's what God expects us to do. We're to be lights in the dark, cold days that are this world. Like fireflies in December.
Jennifer Erin Valent
#91. In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.
Jane Smiley
#92. Jesus expects one hundred percent surrender, and when that is accomplished He rewards a thousandfold.
Billy Graham
#93. You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every wall to fall flat.
Robert Graves
#94. My plans were vague. I talked liberty to many of my friends and, you know how it is, when one talks liberty everything seems beautifully simple. One expects all gates to open and all walls to fall flat and all voices to shout for joy.
Robert Graves
#95. One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.
Jennifer Donnelly
#96. Pissing off the hottie you're married to is far worse, 'cause she chose you over all of the other pathetic hopefuls, and expects more outta you because of it.
Daniel Kelley
#97. When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, one that expects no liberation from liberation.
Harold Bloom
#98. If he expects me to talk for the mere sake of talking and showing off, he will find he has addressed himself to the wrong person.
Charlotte Bronte
#99. The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.
John Kessel
#100. Effective leaders....always rise to a challenge. That's one of the things that separates winners from whiners.....Walton rose above it by solving his problems with creativity and tenacity.
Anyone who expects the road to be easy will continually find himself in trouble.
John C. Maxwell
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