Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.
I'm beyond caring what anyone expects of me anymore.
If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.
. . . the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.
A good messenger expects to get shot.
After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.
I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. I find it so interesting that so many people rush into the commitment of marriage, which is a legal contract, without knowing anything about what the expectations of the other person are, and they've not explained or articulated their expectations of the other person.
No one ever expects poetry to sell.
Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. . . The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.
There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so.
Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?
England expects that every man will do his duty.
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.