#expect

With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#blow #certain #conducting #expecting #experience

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. ↗

— George Santayana

#better #children #exertions #expected #happier

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. ↗

— George Santayana

#expect #much #other #philosophers #severe

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them. ↗

— Lee Scott

#behind #bounce #company #expect #i

You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security. ↗

— Rick Scott

#expect #fix #floridians #get #government

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#again #believe #brother #expect #fully

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#expecting #greatest #impediment #living #loses

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#bunch #coming #deliver #democrats #expect

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cultures #descriptive #develop #different #different cultures

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. ↗

— Ed Smith

#because #beyond #blacks #burden #civil