#expect

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#generally #sing #slaves #well #work

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#men #rational #reap #sow #whirlwind

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#also #course #expect #issues #make

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#blocks #carried #doing #expectancy #i

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#doing #every #expectation #get #grew

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#audience #consciously #course #energy #everyone

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#economy #exercise #expect #how #judge

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#anyone #difficult #else #expectations #high

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. ↗

— Errol Flynn

#chap #decent #down #expected #his

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game. ↗

— Bobby Thomson

#every #expected #famous #game #guys