Expect Quotes

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people. It is not possible.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing, then I hope that people will also get less worried about the future of inflation.

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

What do you expect me to do about it?

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect.

I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.