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The better job you do, the more work you can expect to be handed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, work, contentment

You can drive a car in to any river ford, just don't expect to always be able drive out.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, contentment

Never criticize your mother's cooking if you expect to get any more of it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about mother, contentment

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about expectation, things, contentment

Keys dropped near an open elevator door will always fall down the crack.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about expectation, fall

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about expectation, contentment

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

Quote by Joe Orton about children, present

These were profane when my parents were my age, and I expect they will still be profane when my children are my age.

Quote by Doug Ose about parents, age, olderness, children

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

Quote by Donny Osmond about faith, contentment

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Quote by Thomas Paine about liberty, man

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion, perfection, moment, contentment

Abstract rules, which establish in advance what we may expect of one another, make cooperation possible on a wide scale.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about rules

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about opinion, waste, home, time, life

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about parents, home

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, contentment

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed, for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about style, people

We lost nearly three thousand brave souls and I expect ground zero will become the most visited site in North America.

Quote by George Pataki

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Quote by Ron Paul about guvernement

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about revelation, lie

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

Quote by Bill Paxton about film, good, good luck, contentment