You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

I go for actors who do precisely what is expected of them.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.

The truly important events on the outside are not the trends. They are changes in the trends. These determine ultimately success or failure of an organization and its efforts. Such changes, however, have to be perceived; they cannot be counted, defined, or classified. The classifications still produce the expected figures – as they did for the Edsel. But the figures no longer correspond to actual behavior.

Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow.

It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Explosive and was expected to blow him up.

Expect the best and get it.

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like ‘Con Air’ and ‘Gone in 60 Seconds,’ not what would be expected.

The expected always happens

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

I never really expected to be controversial.

I’m not sure exactly what Victor and Victoria would be

Oh, really? Well, my movie’s gonna make more money than your movie.

There is no trouble in patience and there is no benefit in complaining.

God wants to supply your needs from a place you never expected, through people you never knew, in ways you never thought, but first you have to believe that it is possible. Once you understand that His ability to meet your needs is bigger than your job or your business, you will find that your source of life is bigger than the resources that you have been accumulating.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

I don’t decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

I find myself fascinating

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

No, my friend, forget the lottery! Win or lose, it is the same, it is a kind of deadly game in which we can never guess the consequences.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.