Expects Quotes

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.