It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
William Blake

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy

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

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

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
Tom Peters

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw

In order to win, you must expect to win.
Richard Bach

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
Albert Schweitzer

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
Margaret Thatcher

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
Ron Paul

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