Expect Quotes - page 3

Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. (Roger Ebert)
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. View quote
Alice Walker
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. View quote
Anthony Burgess
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I was walking by a drycleaner at 3a. m. and there was a sign that said Sorry, we're closed. You don't have to be sorry. It's 3a. m. and your a drycleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna come by at 10 and say, hey I was here at 3a. m and you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination. View quote
Betty Friedan
In order to win, you must expect to win. View quote
Richard Bach
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant. View quote
Indra Nooyi
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. View quote
Flip Wilson
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. (Oscar Wilde)
I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan-but they don't know what to copy! View quote
W. Edwards Deming
What I want from all my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done. View quote
Meher Baba
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God. View quote
William Carey (missionary)
Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite chinese restaurant -- you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. View quote
David Lee Roth
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing. View quote
Alice Cooper
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life. View quote
Bill Watterson
We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports. View quote
Bruce Schneier
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. (Zig Ziglar)
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. View quote
Francis Bacon
In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect. View quote
Tristan Bernard
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. View quote
Will Smith
You have to expect things of yourselves before you can do them. View quote
Michael Jordan