quotes about Expected
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An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
-- A. P. HerbertSource : Uncommon Law "Act of God" (1935)
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.
-- Abbi Glines -
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
-- Alice James -
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Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
-- Ann Brashares -
I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.
-- Anna Kournikova -
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
-- Arabella Weir -
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She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
-- Ayn Rand -
Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?â€The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.
-- B. J. NovakSource : B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.68, Vintage
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I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
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Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going
-- Budd Schulberg -
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
-- Charles Dickens -
On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far
-- Cher Lloyd -
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But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
I expected to go into journalism or law.
-- Christie HefnerSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.
-- Christopher AtkinsSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!
-- Clay Aiken -
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So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.
-- Cynthia HandSource : Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.49, Egmont UK
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Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.
-- David LangeSource : "Dominion", (p. 6), December 30, 1991.
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Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious
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I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.
-- Dee Dee Ramone -
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How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.
-- Denis JohnsonSource : Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.83, Macmillan
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The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...
-- Dennis Ritchie -
To those who much has been given, much is expected.
-- Don Meyer -
I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy
-- Dyan Cannon -
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Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
-- Edward G. Begle -
I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
-- Eliot Spitzer -
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
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It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.
-- Emma BullSource : Emma Bull (2004). “War for the Oaks: A Novel”, p.251, Macmillan
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Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
-- Evan Esar -
So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
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There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?
-- Francois HollandeSource : "How DSK's fall led to Hollande's rise" By Peter Wilkinson, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2012.
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Happiness often comes when least expected.
-- François LelordSource : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.42, Gallic Books
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It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
-- Frank B. KelloggSource : Isaac Watts (1812). “The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes”, p.517
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To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
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Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
-- Gary Clark, Jr. -
My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.
-- Georgette Heyer -
Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
-- Hal Riney -
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On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
-- Henry James -
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
-- Howard HodgkinSource : Interview with Antony Peattie, howard-hodgkin.com. October 19, 1993.
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Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.
-- Jacob August RiisSource : Jacob August Riis (1973). “Jacob Riis revisited: poverty and the slum in another era”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.
-- Jason Mraz -
Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!
-- Jeff Belanger -
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I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.
-- Jennifer GarnerSource : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 28, 2009.
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Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.
-- Jodi Lynn AndersonSource : Jodi Lynn Anderson (2006). “Peaches”, HarperCollins Children's Books
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Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.
-- Joel SpolskySource : "Usability in One Easy Step (First Draft)". Article by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. March 7, 2006.
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They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
-- John Adams -
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This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.
-- John Ajvide LindqvistSource : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Harbour”, p.164, Hachette UK
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To those whom much is given, much is expected.
-- John F. Kennedy -
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
-- John Ortberg -
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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
-- John TukeySource : John Wilder Tukey (1977). “Exploratory Data Analysis”, Pearson College Division
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Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
-- Judi Dench -
I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
-- Judi Dench -
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Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
-- Louis de Bernieres -
I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
-- Maeve Binchy -
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
-- Margaret Chase Smith -
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
-- Margaret Deland -
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
-- Maria Doyle KennedySource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
-- Mark McKinnon -
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
-- Mary MacLaneSource : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.125, Petrarca Press
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
-- Maya Angelou -
I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.
-- Michael Ian Black -
I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.
-- Michael Michele -
It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
-- Nadia Comaneci -
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
-- Patti SmithSource : Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.25, A&C Black
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
-- Paul Newman -
The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
-- Peter GarrettSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
-- Quintilian -
What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
-- Ralph EllisonSource : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.277, Vintage
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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
-- Rex StoutSource : Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.72, Crimeline
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You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience.
-- Richard Ramirez -
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A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.
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I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.
-- Ruben Studdard -
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
-- Rudy RuckerSource : Rudy Rucker (1999). “Seek!: Selected Nonfiction”, p.92, Running Press
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My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected
-- Sally Hawkins -
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.
-- Sara Sheridan -
I have always... expected a lot from myself.
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Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.
-- Scott Berkun -
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The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
-- Shonda Rhimes -
Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected.
-- SQuire RushnellSource : SQuire Rushnell (2007). “When GOD Winks on Love: Let the Power of Coincidence Lead You to Love”, p.70, SUNY Press
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After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?
-- Stephenie Meyer -
We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.
-- Stuart Rose -
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She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.
-- Tove JanssonSource : "Sommarboken". Book by Tove Jansson, 1972.
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I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.
-- Tracey Ullman -
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
-- Tycho Brahe -