Top 100 To Expect Quotes
#1. If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
#2. No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.
Robert Reich
#3. No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
Honore De Balzac
#4. People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a lot of inner-city African-Americans can relate to.
Michael Jai White
#5. Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.
Erving Goffman
#6. I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
Rafael Palmeiro
#7. Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.
Freeman Dyson
#8. I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.
E.L. James
#9. We never want to be taken for granted, but our partners should be able to expect our honest loyalty. That is a powerfully strong foundation block for a relationship. I want to meet the greatest expectations, without being the greatest fraud.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#10. The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#11. For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
Madeleine Stowe
#13. Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He'd been born to privilege, conditioned to expect things would go well, and pathetically unable to cope once they started to go wrong.
Richard Russo
#14. In any matter where we have questions, we have a right to ask the Holy Spirit to lead us and to expect His gentle guiding.
Curtis Hutson
#15. By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
Charles Caleb Colton
#16. Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
John McGahern
#17. To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson
#18. Alas, the world turned out so very different from the noble battleground she had led me to expect. The stakes were puny, the people gray and gutless; my Amazon arts were futile here.
Anne Fortier
#19. Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.
Roger Swain
#20. Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.
Sarah Dessen
#21. Brie wasn't a woman that would try to fit whatever ideal mold I thought I had for a partner; she was a woman that shattered the mold and made me feel the excitement of young love again - the kind of love where you never know what to expect next and you can't wait to find out.
R.S. Grey
#22. I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.
William J. Clinton
#23. I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.
Mark Twain
#24. But I guess you learn to stop hoping, after a while. Life teaches you to expect the worst, eh?
Joe Abercrombie
#25. Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.
John Flanagan
#26. What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.
Margaret Drabble
#27. How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Anais Nin
#28. Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.
Rachel Kushner
#29. It is useless to expect appreciation of his profound and fine senses from such men as the lieutenant.
Stephen Crane
#30. Everybody has a different journey. Everybody has a different path, and you don't really know what to expect. All you know is to just keep plugging away, and you hope something will come through and something will happen.
Grace Gealey
#31. It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#32. The first heartbreak is the hardest one, because you don't know what to expect," Lynn told him, and David knew she was speaking from experience. "It will get better, I promise. You just have to give it time.
Geoff Laughton
#33. We can still try! There's no reason to expect a perfect last-minute solution from anyone else. We have to try.
Anonymous
#34. To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
Abraham Verghese
#35. I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.
Rufus Sewell
#36. I think I'd convinced myself that all long-term relationships end up that way; I really thought I had no right to expect more.
Catherine Sanderson
#37. Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.
Tracy Morgan
#38. Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten comics doing ten different things. That's not what happens when you go to hear music. There isn't a classical performance followed by a hoedown followed by rap.
Jon Stewart
#39. You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
#40. Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she's come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.
Christina Baker Kline
#41. Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.
Rick Warren
#42. The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don't know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
Michael Lewis
#43. We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner ... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.
George H. W. Bush
#44. It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Richard Whately
#45. Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you've come to expect from Jessica Alba.
Chelsea Handler
#46. 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
#47. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have specific reason to expect it - and
Ayn Rand
#48. When we choose to be different, we have to expect a little attention.
Nancy Grossman
#49. She liked his face - its lines were tight and firm, it did not have that look of loose muscles evading the responsibility of a shape, which she had learned to expect in people's faces.
Ayn Rand
#50. Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn to doubt their own worth and to belittle the value of others. They learn to suspect people and to expect personal doom.
Haim G. Ginott
#51. Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
Robert Kennedy
#52. We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect ... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs ... if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.
Aaron Siskind
#53. I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.
Bernard Hill
#54. So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.
Arthur C. Clarke
#55. Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
Harry S. Truman
#56. The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings
Kate Morton
#57. If Prophets and Messengers are the closest to godliness as any human is capable of being, and yet even they fail, how the fuck can anyone, less than perfect, be so arrogant as to expect they will do better than a Prophet, or Messenger of G-D.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#58. I always know what to expect of the things of Mother Earth. Sometimes they are cruel, but it is hard, clean cruelty. They don't torture you with their own weakness.
Anna Lee Waldo
#59. Right now it might seem draconian to charge for access to information we have come to expect for free, but it would feel very different if you knew what other people were also paying you at the same time for information service you have fractionally contributed to in the course of your life.
Jaron Lanier
#60. To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.
Mark Steyn
#61. I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what to expect from Graeme Base. With 'The Sign of the Seahorse,' I took a step away from the puzzle-book genre - that was more of an adventure story.
Graeme Base
#62. This is my home now. I like it. Nothing happens here. I know what to expect from one day to the next. I can control everything, and I can eat. I like eating.
Fay Weldon
#63. We praised them when they were kind to others but told them not to expect to be rewarded for their good deeds. We scolded them whenever they tried to talk back. We taught them never to accept a handout. We taught them never to brag. We taught them everything we knew.
Julie Otsuka
#64. The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
Edward L. Bernays
#65. Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
Hermann Hesse
#66. Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#67. What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
Graham Greene
#68. Carrying an aggressive attitude is to expect cool shadow under a naked Tree
Samar Sudha
#69. The typical mentality among the leadership of "less work for more money" is far too prevalent. Outstanding efforts by individual employees are frowned upon, because they give "management" a reason to expect better results without an increase in compensation.
Glenn Beck
#70. 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
#71. Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
John Oliver
#72. The public always loves anything that's different, as long as it's well-made, if it's well-done. You never know what to expect when you go to one of these so-called superhero movies.
Stan Lee
#73. I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.
Julia Garner
#74. With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.
Sarah Dessen
#75. When you're that resigned and oppressed you're already dead. It shows the genocide was prepared for too long. I detest this fear. These victims of genocide had been psychologically prepared to expect death just for being Tutsi. They were being killed for so long that they were already dead.
Philip Gourevitch
#76. I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.
John Williams
#77. Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Jim Rohn
#78. It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
Carre Otis
#80. I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.
Jonathan LaPaglia
#81. I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.
Julius Genachowski
#83. Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.
Charles Spurgeon
#84. with a woman's life expectancy at eighty-four years, it is reasonable to expect that she will not only live thirty to forty years beyond menopause, but be vibrant, sharp, and influential as well. The menopause you will experience is not your mother's (or grandmother's) menopause.
Christiane Northrup
#85. Our God is a God of order, and a God who works by means, and we have no right to expect His cause to be kept up by constant miraculous interpositions, while His servants stand idle.
J.C. Ryle
#86. To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.
Mary Stewart
#87. That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant
the act of a tyrant.
Marcus Aurelius
#88. After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'
Mohamed El-Erian
#89. He waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting.
Thomas Hardy
#90. 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
#91. All right, I had been seen in flagrante iugulo and had every right to expect that I would be instantly outed and arrested.
Jeff Lindsay
#92. I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing ... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Lou Holtz
#93. Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
Neil Armstrong
#94. You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart.
Debasish Mridha
#95. She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Those things were for the whites, not the blacks.
Buchi Emecheta
#96. If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.
Saint John Chrysostom
#97. I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.
Dan Brown
#98. Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.
Dr. John
#99. I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos.
Goenawan Mohamad
#100. But you make the rest hard too. Make me work for you. Make me earn your love. It's worth whatever price. Whatever cost. Don't let me come to expect easy with you. Make me want to work hard for you.
Nicole Williams
