#expect

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself. ↗

— Theresa May

#expectation #get #how #in the past #know

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#away #believe #best #continued #expectations

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. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#any #architects #architecture #called #could

I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years. ↗

— Callum McDougall

#certainly #changed #chosen #everyone #expects

The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#american people #budget #decisions #elected #elected officials

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#actually #before #character #down #expected

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#floats #forth #hope #image #onto

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brief #duration #enjoyed #flower #found

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.' ↗

— Jude Law

#cutting #cutting edge #ease #edge #expected

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#criminal #doing #even #ever #expected