Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.
At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.
God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Duty is what one expects from others.
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be. . . The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.
After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.
You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit.
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
. . . the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.
Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him. . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.
Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.