There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Jack Kevorkian

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
Babe Ruth

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
Ben Sweetland

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
Jeff Bezos

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.
Jesse James

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Joseph Addison

He who awaits much can expect little.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
George Santayana

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor

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

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
Bertolt Brecht

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
Drew Barrymore

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
Virgil

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?
George Eliot

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
Marilyn vos Savant

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.
Shel Silverstein