Expect Quotes

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50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if… — Jim Carrey
Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge. — John of Salisbury
The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start… — John Banville
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be… — Douglas Adams
My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades. — Charles Dickens
When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among… — George Washington
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it… — Orson Scott Card
You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament. — Roger Federer
No, I'm not (disappointed). There's no reason to be because I'm on an incredible run. You always expect a loss once in a while. So… — Roger Federer
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning. — Jonathan Swift
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of… — Chinua Achebe
No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them,… — Sigmund Freud
I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of… — B.F. Skinner
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. — Sherwood Anderson
If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed… — Rush Limbaugh
Why would we expect the French to fight to liberate the Iraqis when they wouldn't fight to liberate themselves? — Rush Limbaugh
I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as… — George Strait
Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who… — Michael Moorcock
I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then… — Pete Conrad

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