Expects Quotes

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.