Quotes with expect

  • You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
  • What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
  • You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
  • Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
  • Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
  • Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
  • A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
  • Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
  • We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
  • If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
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  • Heraclitus If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale We tend to get what we expect.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Joseph Addison With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • C. Everett Koop You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Zig Ziglar You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis 'As a genereal rule you shouldn't expect too much from people darling,' and then I kiss her on the cheek.
    Glamorama (1998)
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer A am realistic - I expect miracles.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Betty Friedan A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bill Walsh A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Bernard Goldberg A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Barry Levinson A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Lord George Byron A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Joe Paterno Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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