Expect Quotes

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections.

I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid.

I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.