Expected Quotes

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

CNN stands to make a hundred million dollars more than it's expected lift for the election cycle, due to the phenomenon that is Donald Trump.

How can I give more than is expected of me?

January is expected to do well due to the strong sales of gift cards and promotions.

I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

You wake up every morning with a smile on your face because you've got a new day you never expected to have. And there's a sense of wonderment. Nothing short of magical.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

She [Hillary Clinton] was always expected to win the Democratic nomination so I wouldn't be surprised if they picked those evenings .

Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve.

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books.

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

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.

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

Life is full of all sorts of things, and I never expected to be a part of this. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. So you never know.

In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

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.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.

To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

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.

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Had he expected me to hump her leg?