Top 100 You Can Expect Quotes
#2. You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and forget.
Kevin Hearne
#3. I'm not going to start churning out what you expect. If you want me to be a manufactured act, you can f*** off.
Lady Gaga
#4. It is not wrong to change in order to achieve certain goals in life. If you want a happy relationship, for example, you can't expect luck to bring it. You can't have something that implies you without being yourself there.
Robin Sacredfire
#5. You can't expect to work for the Daily Mail group and have the rest of society treat with you respect as a useful member of society, because you are not.
Ken Livingstone
#6. Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.
Saki
#7. Trust is a tricky thing. It can bite you hard when you least expect it to.
Steph Campbell
#8. The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you.
S.A. Tawks
#9. Faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
George Sand
#10. 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
#11. A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak.
This magpie was like that.
Colin Thiele
#12. You Can't Keep Wild Animal In Your Back Yard And Expect It To Go only After Your Neighbor.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#13. Sometimes that which is most precious can be found where you would least expect to.
David Gaider
#14. I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. You bite the bullet and get on with it. One can't expect to be happy all the time ... You expect to be happy, as if it's a right. It's not a right. It's a bonus. The cherry on the cake.
Santa Montefiore
#16. Before you can expect to reach your potential and make your mark, you will be forced into isolation. You cannot conquer the world unless you first conquer yourself.
Neil Kennedy
#17. Well, the only reason we're friends is because you can rock a tweed suit," she informed, tone mock serious. "So if you want to keep me around, I expect more tweed.
Laura Kreitzer
#18. Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what's out of your control.
Jack Canfield
#19. You can't be completely in love with a dragon and expect anything to be normal.
Julie Kagawa
#20. You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
David Kirk
#21. In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.
Joan Rivers
#22. You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.
Wesley Eisold
#23. But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Saki
#24. You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.
Kendrick Lamar
#25. You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
Aravind Adiga
#26. Think it not strange if you should frequently feel yourself to have failed, nor wonder if it should turn out that at such times you have best succeeded. You must not expect to become sufficient as of yourself; no habit or exercise can render you independent of divine assistance;
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. You can't expect a person to love an animal they might see decapitated at any minute. It ain't realistic, I told Miss Blue, who was gulping down her worm. She looked up at me like it shocked her to learn that some chickens got treated that way.
Frances O'Roark Dowell
#28. My gentle Reader, I perceive / How patiently you've waited, / And now I fear that you expect / Some tale will be related. / O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in every thing.
William Wordsworth
#29. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#30. In a very complex world, you can no longer expect everyone to be great at everything.
Gordon Gee
#31. If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.
Ellis
#32. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't?
Alicia Kobishop
#33. You can't live an unhealthy lifestyle and expect a healthy outcome.
Frank Sonnenberg
#34. How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!
Hilary McKay
#35. But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do.
- Pete Cassidy
Cynthia Rylant
#36. If you can't fool yourself," he said, "how can you expect to fool anybody else?
Janet Evanovich
#37. You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
Spiro T. Agnew
#38. A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.
Bill Gates
#40. Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate
how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#41. In combat situations, your choices can be judged based only against what you knew at the time. To expect anything more of a soldier is to demand that he or she be superhuman. Which seems, to me, unreasonable.
Jim Butcher
#42. You can never expect to live a positive life if you continue to hangout with negative people. The way you think ... you will live!
Timothy Pina
#43. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
#44. If you cannot extol the virtue of your own creation, how can you expect others to?
Lynda Bester
#45. In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
Frederick Douglass
#46. I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#47. If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon.
Donella H. Meadows
#48. Being web video 'experts'/'pioneers,' whatever you may want to call us, has us always thinking about content that is outside the box, inherently viral in itself and good for web video audiences, as you can't just put out a good piece of content and expect it to be seen.
Benny Fine
#49. When investing, I'm not against risk. If you take no risk you must expect a low return. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can get a high return with low risk.
Paul Clitheroe
#50. You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can't expect the world to be better than we make it.
Laini Taylor
#52. You really expect answers to your calling when you are young. You feel that whatever you may think can be real. And some times maybe that is not so wrong.
Ray Bradbury
#53. How do you expect anyone to accept you if you can't accept yourself?
Dana Elmendorf
#54. Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it.
Alice Hoffman
#55. I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, "At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites?" She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?
Curtis Sittenfeld
#56. You can't just place a few "Buy" buttons on your website and expect your visitors to buy.
Neil Patel
#57. It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.
Stella McCartney
#58. Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature.
Richard Dawkins
#59. You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.
Wayne Dyer
#60. You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.
Olav Thon
#61. You've got to keep a dog with you at all times. A dog cannot roam. You've got to keep him in the house with you. You can't have a wild dog and expect days to go good.
George Foreman
#62. You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
Kiefer Sutherland
#63. I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you least expect it.
Geneva Carr
#64. You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
Lowell Bergman
#65. You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.
Dave Heineman
#66. Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#67. So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.
Ginni Rometty
#68. You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.
Aaron Rodgers
#69. You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.
Donatella Versace
#70. This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.
John Bevere
#71. How can I expect to get anything done around here with you touching me like that?
Faith Sullivan
#72. 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
#73. As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
Nicholas Hoult
#74. My dog was barking at everyone the other day. Still, what can you expect from a cross-breed.
Tommy Cooper
#75. We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.
Barack Obama
#76. Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is ... only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.
Steve Goodier
#77. Life is the sum or product of a bunch of individual moments if you can't enjoy moments then how do you expect to enjoy life?
Matthew Donnelly
#78. God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
Euripides
#79. Perhaps I myself am a pompous and conceited old fool. And perhaps if these fools I complain of were French or Dutch or German I would not mind so much, because then I could say 'What else can you expect?' and feel superior. It is because they are men of my own race that I would have them all good.
M.M. Kaye
#80. It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.
Zooey Deschanel
#81. I miss the beginning stages when you didn't know what to expect. When everything was fresh, just experiencing it for the first time. That's something you can't buy with all the money in the world, that feeling.
Kurupt
#82. You can not entertain weak, harmful, negative thoughts ten hours a day and expect to bring about beautiful, strong and harmonious conditions by ten minutes of strong, positive, creative thought.
Charles F. Haanel
#83. You just have to know what the right laws are under the right circumstances, and design the device with the correct laws. You cannot expect old designs to work in new circumstances. But new designs can work in new circumstances ...
Richard Feynman
#84. You can't react to a man's kiss like that and expect him to forget you.
Chloe Blaque
#86. You can't think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don't go together.
Joel Osteen
#87. You can't expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse.
Terry Goodkind
#88. As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.
Eleanor Catton
#89. If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.
Anthony Liccione
#90. Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.
Chelsea Clinton
#91. You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.
Heather Demetrios
#92. Pray not while you can work. Hope is the least of what life can afford you, never the best. Hope is a plague, never a blessing, especially when the answer is sought not from us but from others. It is unqualified burden to expect something from nothing.
Dew Platt
#93. If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.
Yoko Ono
#94. I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.
Randy Carlyle
#95. I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.
George Strait
#96. If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
Sheri Dew
#97. As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.
Raymond Chandler
#98. You can never have a successful end if you expect things to change as a result of miracles. Things will never change unless you take up the challenge to change them yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. 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
#100. At seventy-one you can't expect to hear a story, any story, and take it as it is. At my age a story stirs up a vortex that sucks into its eye more stories, and spits out still more. I must remember what I must.
Miroslav Penkov
