Quotes with expects

  • I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

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  • Charles Dickens A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Patricia Neal A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
    Patricia Neal
    American actress (1926 - 2010)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Alexander Pope Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
    Letter to William Fortescue (23 september 1725)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Edgar Cayce For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
    Edgar Cayce
    American clairvoyant (1877 - 1945)
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  • Meister Eckhart God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Dorothy Serrity God the almighty and all terrible, who expects us to do something to help ourselves.
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • James Tyler Kent He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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  • Barack Obama Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bruce Lipton If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
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  • Barbara Ward The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay, and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • William Arthur Ward The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, and the realist adjusts the sails.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Karl Kraus War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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