Expected Quotes

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

Usually, something that is fairly expected is already factored in. I also think that you have to think that America is raising rates because the economy is getting stronger.

I'm feeling better than expected.

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

If you're uncertain and a [Donald] Trump skeptic, you think you know what, this administration is going to be better than I expected.

I just found that the knowledge of ordinary Americans about Iran is very small - which is totally expected.

China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.

I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.

No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

I kinda expected to turn the bottle and see a recipe. "So that's how you make ice cubes. Apparently you just freeze this stuff. Oh, but you need a tray. That's how they trick you into it."

I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

If you're a working mom, you're still expected to be a super-mom at home, buy organic food, put dinner on the table every night, and do all the research into preschools. It's really hard.

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.

They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.

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.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.

It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.

Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt...It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.

[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.

The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored .

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

I'm not sure that Enrique Pena expected Donald Trump to take him up on his offer to come to Mexico and meet with him in the short period of time that there is between now and the elections.

I don't think Enrique Pena Nieto expected [visit]. I don't think anybody expected it to be so quick, the response [like Donald Trump].

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path and - bang! - the joke comes out of nowhere.

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.

If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.

The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadnt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because hed thought surely the first must have been a mistake.