A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.
Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.
To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.
In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.
When you give, give without any expectations.
I am realistic – I expect miracles.
People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with.
Think of something useless, and that's probably what I'll be doing. Listen, Virginia, we need to love the useless. We need to raise pigeons without a thought of eating them, plant rose bushes without expecting to pick roses, write without aiming at p...