Expect Quotes

If you do something, expect consequences.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements.

It was just a hobby. I didn't expect it to turn into a business.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in.

You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.

For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

I expect an energy bill to increase and diversify supply and stabilize energy prices - not drive up energy costs in one part of the country to subsidize energy in another region.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

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.