Quotes About Expectation

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

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.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.

It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for.

All the Chinese people Richard had ever met had been sophisticated urbanites, so he had been half expecting that he would end up carrying the girl Yuxia on his back. But it became clear almost immediately that she was half mountain goat, or whatever the Chinese equivalent of a mountain goat was.

The problem with those honorable men," Avi says, "is that they expect everyone else to be honorable in the same way.

It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for." "Do