Top 100 You Can Expect Quotes
#1. 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
#2. In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.
Joan Rivers
#3. If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.
Ellis
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.
Raymond Chandler
#10. You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
Halsey
#11. If you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone.
Benji Durden
#12. Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
B.C. Forbes
#13. Life's gonna kick you in the butt.
That's what it does.
But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn't in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat)
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.
Jessica Zafra
#15. When God holds the Crayons you can expect a masterpiece.
Toni Sorenson
#16. Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
Scott Adams
#17. Are you reading your Bible?"
Ah, well ... I was."
And then you quit."
You got it."
Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.
Jan Karon
#18. When you take your heart out of your chest and hold it out for all to see, it's not like you can expect everyone not to notice. Phin
Sarah Addison Allen
#20. I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
Ian Jackson
#21. I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.
Taron Egerton
#22. Paradise Lost is a poem. The old, blind bastard's trying to sing to you. Listen, as the Isley Brothers say, to the music. You must learn to do that before you can expect to understand. Slowly. Slowly. A few licks at a time.
John Edgar Wideman
#23. Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
Washington Allston
#24. You can expect interior enforcement actions in the future.
Asa Hutchinson
#25. Be consistent in your attitude towards her and do not add anything to the impression she has that you are weak, not because you need her good-will but because you can expect more letters like this, and they can only serve to increase your already dangerous anti-social instincts.
Truman Capote
#26. You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.
Anita Hill
#27. The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.
Dick Allen
#28. Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.
Stephen Dorff
#29. 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
#30. Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
Marianne Faithfull
#31. You were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win.
Zig Ziglar
#32. do not expect high CTRs on Facebook. Unlike Google, where the average CTR is 1%, on Facebook you can expect CTRs of 0.1%, as on Facebook ads are displayed and not searched for.
Gabriela Taylor
#33. I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.
James Van Der Beek
#34. My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
Kangana Ranaut
#35. You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
Sylvia Plath
#36. You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
Carl Jung
#37. To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.
Auliq Ice
#38. When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the feeling. When the attack comes from within, no such indulgence is shown. 'He was one of us,' runs the refrain.
Michela Wrong
#39. No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.
Robert Pozen
#40. "Croissant": However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying "kwass-ohn," the sooner you can expect to be presented with one.
Bill Bryson
#41. Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
Lewis Thomas
#42. The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.
Brandon Sanderson
#43. You can expect that out of Federal people and to make it worse this was a Republican gang that cared nothing for the opinion of the good people of Arkansas who are Democrats.
Charles Portis
#44. If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.
C. Vivian Stringer
#45. What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.
Roy H. Williams
#48. You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and forget.
Kevin Hearne
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Trust is a tricky thing. It can bite you hard when you least expect it to.
Steph Campbell
#54. 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
#55. Faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
George Sand
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. You Can't Keep Wild Animal In Your Back Yard And Expect It To Go only After Your Neighbor.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#59. Sometimes that which is most precious can be found where you would least expect to.
David Gaider
#60. 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,
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what's out of your control.
Jack Canfield
#64. You can't be completely in love with a dragon and expect anything to be normal.
Julie Kagawa
#65. You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
David Kirk
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
Aravind Adiga
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. In a very complex world, you can no longer expect everyone to be great at everything.
Gordon Gee
#75. 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
#76. You can't live an unhealthy lifestyle and expect a healthy outcome.
Frank Sonnenberg
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. If you can't fool yourself," he said, "how can you expect to fool anybody else?
Janet Evanovich
#80. You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
Spiro T. Agnew
#81. A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection
Chuck Palahniuk
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
#87. If you cannot extol the virtue of your own creation, how can you expect others to?
Lynda Bester
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#95. 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
#96. How do you expect anyone to accept you if you can't accept yourself?
Dana Elmendorf
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. You can't just place a few "Buy" buttons on your website and expect your visitors to buy.
Neil Patel
#100. 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
