Expect Quotes

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.

The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.

People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.