Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.
I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never expected to see this book in English), but by far its greatest attraction is the intelligence and more important the wisdom of its author. It's a towering achievement no serious reader should miss.
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.
Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
In order to have enough of the raw materials. . . which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.
After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?
The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadnt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because hed thought surely the first must have been a mistake.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?
Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren't the demons we've expected them to be.