If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
Miyamoto Musashi

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Martin Van Buren

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Orison Swett Marden

Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.
Laura Bush

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
Augusten Burroughs

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

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
James Patterson

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Linus Torvalds

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
Linus Torvalds

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
Isadora Duncan

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld