I’ve been getting some bad publicity – but you got to expect that.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn’t happen.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.