Expect Quotes

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Don't just expect the scouts to find you. Go to camps, clinics and make sure you are seen.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.'

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.

I've never figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.'

I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.