| "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." »Anonymous |
| "I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up." »Beverly Sills |
| "What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong." »Dr. |
| "Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt." »Kim Hubbard |
| "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." »Plato |
| "I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." »Leo Rosten |
| "The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be." »Og Mandino |
| "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." »Stephen Jobs |
| "When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much." »Richard Olton |
| "One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun." »Elmer Davis |
| "We all do everything, share the work--there's no room around here for a star, for someone to think she's above the others. You're expected to pitch in on whatever needs doing. Nothing is beneath your dignity. But on the other hand, nothing is beyond your reach." »Frances Hasselbein |
| "It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'" »Athenus |
| "There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience." »Anatole Broyard |
| "If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there." »John Newton |
| "I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman." »David M. Ogilvy |
| "I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind." »Sybil Marshall |
| "I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul." »Douglas MacArthur |
| "The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann |
| "Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
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