Expect Quotes

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

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

For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.

I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.