“You'd expect that as much as a samurai would expect a kick in the balls.”

“If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory.”

“Hume emphasized that the expectation of one thing following another does not lie in the things themselves, but in our mind. And expectation, as we have seen, is associated with habit. Going back to the child again, it would not have stared in amazement if when one billiard ball struck the other, both had remained perfectly motionless. When we speak of the 'laws of nature' or of 'cause and effect,' we are actually speaking of what we expect, rather than what is 'reasonable.' The laws of nature are neither reasonable nor unreasonable, they simply are. The expectation that the white billiard ball will move when it is struck by the black billiard ball is therefore not innate. We are not born with a set of expectations as to what the world is like or how things in the world behave. The world is like it is, and it's something we get to know”

“Don't expect too much from people- expect it from yourself”

“He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.”

“To whom much is given, much is expected.”