If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn’t destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

Deaf people can do anything hearing people can do, except hear.

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

I don’t expect to be understood at all.

People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that’s not happening!

In seats where perhaps we don’t expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.

In seats where perhaps we don’t expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.

You should be an example for your children. I show my three children what I am and expect them to live by certain controls. But, by the grace of god, they are good kids.

The beauty of baseball is in its imperfections and unpredictability

In baseball, as in life, the most important things happen when you least expect them

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it

Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach

It’s time to let go, be guided and expect miracles.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

He who awaits much can expect little.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations, much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I guess I’m like any other concerned father, except that nobody else’s son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

If you think I’m hard on my drivers it’s because I expect excellence from them.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

You cannot train alone and expect to run a fast time.

Don’t expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

You dream of your first NFL start when you’re a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

Until you get there, you never know what to expect.

Happiness doesn’t always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

I don’t expect to win every battle, but I think I’ll be around for a while.

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Expect the best and get it.

We tend to get what we expect.

Don’t expect from others—put in your own work

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30 years, and leave a world without civilised people, from which everything will have to build afresh—a process taking (say) 500 years.
Stated just one month after the Hiroshima atomic explosion. Russell became one of the best-known antinuclear activists of his era.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I’m always trying to create something that the fans won’t expect.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.