Expect Quotes
4103 quotes by 2712 authors
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Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.
— Italo Svevo
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Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would…
— Suzanne Vega
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I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only…
— Michael Nesmith
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People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.
— Lou Gerstner
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When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide…
— Lou Gerstner
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that,…
— May Sarton
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Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.
— Russell Lynes
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Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.
— Arthur W. Pink
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New earths, new themes expect us.
— Henry David Thoreau
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A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.
— Frederick The Great
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Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I expect that's the…
— Paul Dirac
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Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being…
— John Ruskin
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When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the…
— Stephen King
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Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue…
— William Morris Hunt
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
— Barry Sanders
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most…
— Asa Gray
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Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
— Henry Watson Fowler
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I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we…
— Brett Favre
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