Expect Quotes

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.