Expect Quotes

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

Expect more than others think possible.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

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.

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.

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.