Expected Quotes

You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.

But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.

I was just trying to fit in to the stereotype American dream, exactly what my parents and everyone expected of me, i met someone who's -- who's awesome, you know, we got along good.

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

In front of the world, all of a sudden I'm a great athlete and I'm put into an environment with 25 other women and I'm expected to go to team meals, team functions.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!

Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity.

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.

The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected.

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this

Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

I remember standing outside of the dorm by the little terrace. I was going to do this job that I wasn't 100 percent certain of, which ended up being much more fun than I expected [in So Notorious].

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

Things never come when they are expected.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?