Expect Quotes

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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. — Mel Brooks
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All… — Abraham Lincoln
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms… — Samuel Johnson
Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. — Isaac Asimov
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. — Linus Pauling
I am getting better at smiling when people expect it. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of… — Jan Karon
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect… — Richard P. Feynman
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed… — Douglas Adams
A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years… — Gabrielle Zevin
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. — Bill Gates
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. — Terry Pratchett
No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would… — Chuck Palahniuk
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the… — Terry McMillan
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of… — Ann M. Martin
She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?" Why not?" Sure." His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others. — Matthew Henry

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