Expected Quotes
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.
If the job is not what you expected and not even your cup of tea, stay put and learn as much as you can while you carefully consider your next move.
The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.
My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
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.
As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.
We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.
I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.
It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows.
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.
So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.
We're doing fine. The fire is no closer today than it was yesterday or the day before. They expected or feared very high winds last night, and they didn't get them.
Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.
You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.
I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense.
In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.
The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.
Come with me," Reyn said. "I want to show you something." Frankly, I had expected something more original. "Really?" I asked, "That's it? That's what you came up with?
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?
I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.
On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far
A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.
He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans.
It was reported today that Michelle Obama wants her mother to move into the White House with them. Yes. This is expected to be the first time Barack uses his veto power.
I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.
It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.
No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
I always expected my work to be what was noticed, appreciated or what would eventually succeed, not my sexuality.
Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.