If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn’t really expect.
If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.
I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn’t expect to hear that. I think it was ‘A Whole New World’ from ‘Aladdin.’
Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.
My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn’t always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.
I am a very sensitive person, especially when it comes to heart-to-heart conversations. I am straightforward and I expect the same from people.
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
Never expect anything, but plan for everything.
Replacing traditional sources of energy completely with renewable energy is going to be a challenging task. However, by adding renewable energy to the grid and gradually increasing its contribution, we can realistically expect a future that is powered completely by green energy.
We can’t expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.
Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.
No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.
Be tough. As a big guy, it’s what your teammates expect from you, to be strong. Set good screens offensively and box out at the other end. It’s a simple technique. I learned it when I was little.
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn’t interest me. I’m not interested in psychotics. I’m interested in the person you don’t expect to have a story. I like Everyman.
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don’t expect it to be.
No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one’s mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.
I’ve always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can’t expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.
Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can’t expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.
When you expect things to happen – strangely enough – they do happen.
There was no precedent. If I asked somebody, ‘What do you expect me to do?’ they all looked blank. They had no idea; nobody had much idea.
I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.
‘That ’70s Show’ was one of the highlights of my life. I didn’t expect to be on it as long as I was.
G-Dragon is a fancy person. People don’t expect the upright image of G-Dragon. Kwon Ji Yong is an introvert and has lots of things going on in his head.
What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That’s our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That’s what they expect from us.
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal – and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say ‘Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!’
I don’t think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don’t wear it just because I think I have to. I’m a very flamboyant person.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don’t understand digital communication, you’re at a disadvantage.
As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.
You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.
This weird thing happens when you’re in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they’ll be good for your career. It’s not about the project’s integrity or anything like that.
I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.
I just always expect the best because I’m a competitor and if I’m competing, then obviously I’m trying to be better in everything.
It’s a pretty crazy adrenaline rush because I feel like every run is different. You can never really expect anything. It’s like a new adventure every time you drop into the pipe.
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
It’s not compatible to expect multilateralism to work and, at the same time, to expect to walk out with everything you wanted. This is a recipe for failure. If we prize the system, we have to come knowing that we will need to make compromises. Sometimes painful compromises.
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
I didn’t expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I’d probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.
