#expect

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#expect #expected #prevented #should #unexpected

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know. ↗

— Russell Baker

#barack obama #because #change #clearly #day

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#expectations #experience #founded #images #memories

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#ask #correction #disorder #expect #linguistic

It's great being blonde - with such low expectations it's easy to impress. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#blonde #easy #expectations #great #impress

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#editing #expect #go #longer #make

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#battles #enough #every #expect #fight

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#establish #expectation #i #i can #justice

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#apply #evils #expect #greatest #innovator

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#doth #him #lay #man #many