Expect Quotes

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information.

My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.