Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?
. . . if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.
I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.
We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.
We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.
We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile.
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.
I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face
Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.
I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.
Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room. Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman
Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them!
I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.
There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.