Top 100 What Do You Expect Quotes
#1. Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface.
Donald Johanson
#2. A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.
Thabo Mbeki
#3. What do you expect me to do i am a pirate not a ninja!" - Annie, The House of Mystery
Matthew Sturges
#4. One of the most difficult questions to answer in Christian work is, "What do you expect to do?" You don't know what you are going to do. The only thing you know is that God knows what He is doing.
Oswald Chambers
#5. But, Jesus, Tommy, what do you expect me to say? I grew up with you. When we were kids your fly was open more often than the twenty-four-hour laundromat. If your dick had been a gun you could have outdrawn Doc Holliday.
Bart Yates
#6. Lucy, you're a passionate, emotional person. Jude isn't so much different. What do you expect to be the result when you two come together? You two don't multiply the peaks and the valleys together; you exponentially affect them.
Nicole Williams
#7. In response to a tactless question he once said to me, 'What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn't resist.
Jacques Yonnet
#8. Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#9. You get in life what you create. Expectation drives the creative process. What do you expect? You expect whatever it is you're thinking about. Your thought process, the conversation in your head, is at the base of the results you create in life.
Darren Hardy
#10. What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?
Dennis Miller
#12. What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.
Michel Faber
#14. Well, now, what do you expect? You're His child. Of course you're going to be lonely when you hold yourself from Him.
Kim Vogel Sawyer
#15. Not all gay men send me penis pictures. But no straight men do. And to date, no woman has sent me a picture of her vaginal canal. 'I know it's a little stretched out, but I've had four kids. What do you expect? LOL.
Augusten Burroughs
#16. you seldom hear, at a funeral, a friend of the deceased saying, "What do you expect, she wore L'Heure Bleue,
Luca Turin
#17. What? Do you expect me to ask every woman I meet, 'Excuse me are you a goddess, because you look like one to me?' Because frankly, that is cheesy. Even for me.
C. Gockel
#18. I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?
Denis Leary
#19. Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.
Alan Moore
#20. The Lady Ishil gestured. "Oh, we asked. It wasn't difficult. Everyone in this pigsty of a town seems to know where you sleep." A delicately curled lip. She let him go. "And with who."
Ringil ignored that one. "I'm a hero, Mother. What do you expect?
Richard K. Morgan
#21. I call it a threat." He checked to ensure the door was locked before making himself comfortable on the chair. "Hey, it's Friday night, let's go out." "Your sneakers are filthy." I scowled, spotting muddy tracks on the floorboards. "What do you expect, your backyard is mucky.
Cathrina Constantine
#22. 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
#23. Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.
Peter Drucker
#24. I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.
Lacey Chabert
#25. You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen with devotion and dedication. You can do it.
Mark LaMoure
#26. When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?
William Feather
#27. Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen ...
Deborah Meaden
#28. Do you become in visible?'
'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.
Patricia A. McKillip
#29. Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?
Michael Thomas Ford
#30. When we're young we think everything has to be wrapped up in a month. But you should take the long view on this one. Before you make a move, be sure, Anya. And even once you're sure, tread carefully. And remember you don't have to do what they expect you to do" -Charles Delacroix
Gabrielle Zevin
#31. Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.
Daniel Quinn
#32. One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.
John Catsimatidis
#33. You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
Tom Shadyac
#34. Don't you know that most people take most things because that's what's given them, and they have no opinion whatever? Do you wish to be guided by what they expect you to think they think or by your own judgment?
Ayn Rand
#35. Failure is not able to have what you planned for, you planning for 'F' and having 'A' is a failure.
Success is having what you do expect or planned, having 'F' when you planned for it is a success.
Miracle is having a success you dont planned for, it breaks the law.
Adelaja Precious
#36. Every time you examine your thoughts you'll notice that whatever you're upset about is rooted in a past you cannot change or a future that may turn out to be completely different from what you expect. You may as well let the past or the future go and do your best at whatever you're doing now.
Mo Gawdat
#37. He had not actually known what to expect in coming here tonight, much less that it would reveal to him two essential truths of life: that men do become wolves and that if you have the privilege to be witness to such a transformation it is the most natural and right thing you have ever seen.
Brian McGreevy
#38. Life can catch you off guard. It smacks you in the face when you least expect it. There is nothing that you can do but accept what has been given to you and work with what you have.
Joann Buchanan
#39. Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things above all that we ask or think.
Andy Murray
#40. Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
Walter Savage Landor
#41. I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.
Lou Holtz
#42. One 2 x 4 beam can support 607 pounds, but two 2 x 4s nailed together can support not just 1,214 pounds (which is what you'd expect), but a whopping 4,878 pounds! So it is with us. We can do so much more together than we can alone.
Sean Covey
#43. You don't expect me," he said, "to revolutionize society on this lawn?"
Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly.
"No, I don't," he said; "but I suppose that if you were serious about your anarchism, that is exactly what you would do.
G.K. Chesterton
#44. For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.
Richard Shepard
#45. I'll expect you and your ... guy friend in the front row. Paying very close attention."
"Wow," I say. "What will you ever do if I get a boyfriend?
Suzanne Young
#46. You must not expect to find that people understand what they do.
John Steinbeck
#47. Don't expect people to respect you for what you are "planning" to do.
Henry Ford
#48. Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
Tim Ferriss
#49. Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.
Sue Wicks
#50. When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat, young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have to be the way you'd expect. Everybody does apples and birds and cats, he said, and it's boring to do what everybody else does.
C.S. Richardson
#51. If you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.
Sara Gruen
#52. If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.
Matthew Vaughn
#53. But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.
Drew Carey
#54. Mistake number one: don't ever expect a woman to do what you think she's going to do.
Mistake number two: don't ever tell her what to do because that's a surefire way of making sure she doesn't. - cowboy John
Ridley Pearson
#55. Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.
Howard Schultz
#56. Don't expect anyone to do anything for you what you're not ready to do for yourself.
Russell Brooks
#57. You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't dilly-dally around, because people really enjoy the genre, and they expect certain things.
Roberta Williams
#58. Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!
Andrew Murray
#59. It seems hardly possible to analyse such a complex situation involving deceit and supposition of another person's emotional response, and then prepare your own plausible lie, all while someone is waiting for you to reply to a question. Yet that is exactly what people expect you to be able to do.
Graeme Simsion
#60. People do what you inspect, not what you expect.
Pearl Zhu
#61. Do not expect your life to "return to normal." That's not what you had in mind when you embarked on this odyssey.
Rasha
#62. that sometimes it is more important to follow your heart than to do what others expect of you." Karen
Chad Thumann
#63. ...if you give all of yourself to God, you can ask and expect that God will give all of Himself to you because that's precisely what He wants to do. We have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we're not all in!
Mark Batterson
#64. While it was understandable to be afraid, and no one would expect you not to be, the worst thing you could do was to run from the trouble you had caused. No matter how accidental it was, you didn't try to deny it. You didn't run. You did what you must to right it.
Terry Goodkind
#65. You don't expect the goat to hatch the hen's eggs. People do what they know very well. Don't expect someone who doesn't know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. We eat and fuck and try to survive. That's what we've been turned into. What the fuck do you expect me to do to?
Zannie Adams
#67. What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Bertolt Brecht
#68. Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.
Paulo Coelho
#69. You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.
Barbara Kingsolver
#70. I have always believed that once you identify the best person for a particular project and tell him or her exactly what you expect, you must put your complete trust in that person, allowing him or her to work independently without interference. If you do, the project is bound to succeed.
Verghese Kurien
#71. I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.
Catherine Deneuve
#72. If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.
Elisabeth Elliot
#73. Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.
Rick Warren
#74. You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? ... If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.
George Bernard Shaw
#75. If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.
Bruce Lee
#76. Do you really think you can just walk back in here and expect us all to cooperate after what you did?"
"Would it help at all if I said I was sorry?
E.J. Fisch
#77. No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
Thomas Sowell
#78. He shook with rage. 'Look what you have done, you vandal. You have destroyed everything!'
'What did you expect me to do? Bend over and wait for the broom-handle?
Stephen Arnott
#79. 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
#80. What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.
Charlaine Harris
#81. When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
Kangana Ranaut
#82. Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.
Madeleine L'Engle
#83. In a respectful relationship, each person understands, "I am responsible to know what is going on inside me and communicate it to you. I do not expect you to know it, nor will I allow you to assume that you know it. And I will not make assumptions about what is going on inside you.
Danny Silk
#84. Life is never what you expect it to be. Sex has more to do with salt than sweetness. The sky is white as often as it's blue.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#85. Don't expect too much from me, cos i might not meet up to your expectations, don't underestimate me, cos i just might do the unexpected, don't expect the truth from me always cos am human, and don't even try to judge me, cos you have not gone trough half of what av been trough
Odeyale Opeyemi
#86. If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what.
Criss Jami
#87. What good you do to men, expect God to return to you, do not expect from men.
Sunday Adelaja
#88. You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?
Mark Victor Hansen
#89. What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.
J.C. Ryle
#90. There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.
Denzel Washington
#91. I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
Akon
#92. Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
Bryant H. McGill
#93. When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish!
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#94. In life, we tend to get what we expect. Start expecting the best. Since life is a do-it-to-yourself project, why not believe in miracles? You have the freedom of choice. Why not expect miracles to happen in your life? Make plans, work hard and expect miracles. Why? Because you can.
Mark LaMoure
#95. You and I are meant to be. It's the only thing I'm absolutely sure of. And while I have no idea what to expect, I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back.
Alyson Noel
#96. You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.
Hanif Kureishi
#97. Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life.
Dan Howell
#98. You know, that's the very least that the American voters can expect is that when you're running for President that you outline what you would do and what you would do differently from this - from the President of the United States.
Mitt Romney
#99. Love your neighbor, even the ones who do not show you the same courtesy. You can't expect to receive love if you're selective and not really willing to give it. What you put into the world, you will indeed get back, even if it's not from the person you're expecting it to be.
Alexandra Elle
#100. When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. "Do they expect students not to be anarchists?" he said. "What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
Ursula K. Le Guin
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