Expect Quotes

If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections.

I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and 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. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

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.

I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.