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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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

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

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

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

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.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

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

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

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

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

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.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

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.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

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

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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

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

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.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

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

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

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

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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.

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

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

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

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

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

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

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

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.

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

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

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.