Expects

Famous quotes containing the word expects:

“I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

““Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed” was the ninth beatitude.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)