Quotes with expect

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  • William Somerset Maugham American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • John McGahern Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Bernhard Schlink As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Adam Clarke As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Fanny Brice Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.
    Fanny Brice
    American comedienne and singer (1891 - 1951)
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  • David J. Schwartz Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier - certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Carre Otis But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Ovid Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Douglas Adams 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 all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Pietro Metastasio Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
    Pietro Metastasio
    Italian poet and librettist (1698 - 1782)
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  • Carole King Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Alice Walker Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Alice Walker Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • William Blake Expect poison from standing water.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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