#expect

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#around #die #else #everybody #expected

I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular. ↗

— James Randi

#established #ever #expect #form #i

I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date. ↗

— James Randi

#because #claims #confirming #date #ever

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#cannot #destroy #every #expected #system

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#completely #else #everybody #everybody else #explore

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#around #corner #else #even #every

Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#april #arizona #better #crews #deployment

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#attractive #beautiful #beautiful woman #expect #her

As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dreams

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged