Expect Quotes - page 4

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets. (Björk)

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

Sarah Palin

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Lydia Maria Child

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all.

William Wordsworth

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Terry Pratchett

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Albert Schweitzer

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Bill Gates

Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of us all.

Che Guevara

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Brian Tracy

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. (Hannah Arendt)

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

Mason Cooley

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Mignon McLaughlin

Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.

Otto von Bismarck

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

Nikola Tesla

We live in the midst of alarms anxiety beclouds the future we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved I do not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

Abraham Lincoln

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Quentin Crisp

Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

Gerald Ford

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking. (Norton Juster)

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

Augusten Burroughs

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon.

Po Bronson

Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.

Reza Aslan

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.

Tim Harford

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