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England expects that every man will do his duty. -- Horatio Nelson
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. -- Dale Dauten
I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. -- Esai Morales
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Jonathan Swift
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. -- Alexander Hamilton
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. -- Henry Ward Beecher
What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things. -- Esther Williams
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. -- Patricia Neal
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -- William Arthur Ward
I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall. -- Chevy Chase
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. -- Alexander Pope
I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses. -- Martin Freeman
Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype. -- Frank Lampard
God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work. -- Minnie Pearl
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. -- Frank A. Clark
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. -- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. -- H. L. Mencken
Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. -- John Hines
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. -- Tom Robbins
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.' -- Daniel J. Boorstin
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
The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. -- Edsger Dijkstra
It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy. -- Jaromir Jagr
Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships with them. They must become architects of community, consistently demonstrating the values that their customer community expects in exchange for their loyalty and purchases. -- Simon Mainwaring
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time. -- Callan McAuliffe
Integrity expects integrity. -- Ellis Peters
One always expects something else. -- Erich Maria Remarque
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition... -- Graham Chapman
Who expects trouble gets trouble. -- Donnie Burns
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! -- Oscar Wilde
Nature neither gives nor expects mercy. -- Diane Ackerman
Everyone expects me to do certain things, -- Rodney Mullen
Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call -- Saul Perlmutter
A good messenger expects to get shot. -- Larry Wall
Duty is what one expects from others. -- Oscar Wilde
No one ever expects poetry to sell. -- Alan Lightman
He that sends a foole expects one. -- George Herbert
A critic is a man who expects miracles. -- James Gibbons
England expects every man to do his duty -- Horatio Nelson
Everybody expects that their vote's going to count. -- Stephanie Tubbs Jones
I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore. -- Paul Westerberg
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. -- Martial
For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful -- Fernando Pessoa
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. -- Meher Baba
Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed. -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema. -- Serge Daney
Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself. -- Juliet Marillier
The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself. -- Bear Bryant
God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
He who expects not to achieve will never do so. -- Caron Butler
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. -- Robertson Davies
I refuse to act the way someone expects me to. -- Madonna Ciccone
The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Remember who you are and what God expects you to become. -- Thomas S. Monson
Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best. -- William Arthur Ward
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Jonathan Swift
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest. -- Norman O. Brown
No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills. -- Jean Harlow
You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit. -- Simone Elkeles
A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress. -- Ted Sizer
What God expects us to attempt, He also enables us to achieve. -- Stephen F Olford
The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be. -- Rick Warren
God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me. -- Louis Zamperini
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. -- Homer
An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to. -- Laurence J. Peter
The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude. -- Henry David Thoreau
Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for. -- Jim Butcher
A successful person expects a clapping hand, an ailing person expects an open hand. -- Anthony Liccione
God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. -- Oswald Chambers
Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me. -- Khloe Kardashian
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces. -- Rainbow Rowell
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects. -- Mason Cooley
Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. -- Bill Johnson
She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. -- Michael Arlen
No one really expects me to do anything offensively. But I expect a little more. -- J. J. Hardy
A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward. -- Shaunti Feldhahn
He doesn't do what anyone expects. But this I know: He will change our world. -- Stephanie Landsem
adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get. -- Ambrose Bierce
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen. -- George Eliot
One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects. -- Marty Rubin
God expects believers to improve their attitude in giving as well as their giving itself. -- Max Anders
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young. -- Kin Hubbard
Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine -- Ernest Rutherford
No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does. -- Murray Leinster
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself, -- James McBride
Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces. -- Rainbow Rowell
Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us -- John Taylor
God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking! -- Chip Ingram
When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide. -- E. W. Howe
I guess I look so straight and normal nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall. -- Chevy Chase
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless. -- T Jay Taylor
The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do. -- Jim George
I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us. -- Bennie Thompson
Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don't be afraid to aim high. -- Pope Francis
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty. -- Leslie Caron
There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them. -- Peter Ackroyd
Amongst all the beautiful women in this world..There's always an idiot ex-boyfriend, who still expects her love again -- 69rascal
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. -- Jack London
The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen. -- Taylor Swift
Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return. -- Terry Hayes
Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.... -- Ralph Waldo Trine
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects. -- Jane Smiley
We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation. -- Dean Kamen
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. -- Octavia Butler
Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided. -- Thomm Quackenbush
Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious. -- Keith Johnstone
I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself. -- Stan Lee
God has given all of us both the mind and the heart. And He fully expects us to use them -- R. Alan Woods
I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return. -- Sandra Bullock
Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job? -- Bill Gothard

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