Expect Quotes

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

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.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

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

When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.

In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.