A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher though awakens your own expectations.

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.

God expects from men something more than at such times and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

Here at this site Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday but he believes tomorrow will be different.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men and expects to make a living at it.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage and he expects your absolute loyalty.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

God has a plan for all of us but He expects us to do our share of the work.

God expects but one thing of you and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

The traveler was active he went strenuously in search of people of adventure of experience. The tourist is passive he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.