Expect Quotes

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. (John Ruskin)
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. View quote
Sun Tzu
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. View quote
Ovid
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves? View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. View quote
William Howard Taft
I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? (Dōgen)
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. View quote
W. C. Fields
Expect poison from the standing water. View quote
William Blake
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. View quote
Joseph Joubert
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. View quote
George Meredith
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. View quote
Thomas Paine
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail, none of which is easy ! View quote
Anne, Princess Royal
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly. (Samuel Johnson)
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. I love being a freak. It's great! View quote
Brian Molko
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. View quote
Thomas Browne
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