Expect Quotes
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I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.
Manika
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If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.
Paul Graham
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Ernie is our governor, and I expect he will be re-elected in 2007.
Ed Whitfield
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He has been outstanding in the preseason. I expect a lot of great things from him.
Adam Pascal
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If you buy a lottery ticket, you really don't expect to win. However, if you do win, it's a different story. The same is true about getting an Oscar. Of course I knew I was nominated, but I never expected my name to be called. When it was, I'm still at a loss to describe the feelings that I experienced.
George Chakiris
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
Bashar al-Assad
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I really didn't expect to win. I was really surprised.
Mary Hansen
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I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.
Alice Rivlin
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I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
George Eliot
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If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?
Billy Donovan
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The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.
Allen Shawn
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I try to not focus on what people expect from me.
Lady Gaga
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We actually have been toying around with a theatrical element. We even had outfits that we wore on stage for the last tour. But I think when people come to see us they ultimately expect a rock show, so we're pulling back on that aspect a bit. We do play in front of a backdrop, though.
Colin Meloy
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People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!
Allen Tate
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Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot expect to deal successfully with today's domestic and personal problems, not to mention those international issues on which our very lives depend.
Gray Fox
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I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs. That was kind of my escape, you know, from the humdrum of the world.
John Prine
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To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they should not expect to be treated with kid gloves.
Michael Sata
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I expect to drive it on the fairway every time I step up to the ball now. I've got a lot more confidence in my driver.
Aaron Baddeley
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Every golfer can expect to have four bad shots in a round and when you do, just put them out of your mind. This, of course is hard to do when you've had them and you're not even off the first tee.
Walter Hagen
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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music. And that`s the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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What else do you expect from a Toledo Rocket?
Chris Wallace
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Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?
Damian Thompson