Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.
Diane von Furstenberg

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Denis Waitley

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
Lee Trevino

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.
Paula Abdul

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.
Elvis Presley

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.
Jimmy Carter

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. Wells

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.
Norman Rockwell

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
Chief Joseph

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
Christopher Walken