Expected Quotes

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?

Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.

See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.

I don't think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn't have me down. It's definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don't dwell on it.

Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

I'm doing my job. I'm doing what's expected out of me, and I'm proud of the way I've been able to perform and contribute.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.

People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

The average age of our members is about 79. They expected them (leaders) to be taking care of everything, and in reality, they were taking care of nothing.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.

Is Tyson okay?' I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.

She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!

Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.

Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.

Be kinder than expected.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

The soreness I have is expected. I have total movement.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

Some people really expected he could do that, would do that. They're not expecting [Donald Trump] to target Hillary [Clinton], just to clean out the swamp.

I'll be honest with you, I never expected [Donald] Trump to actually prosecute [Hillary Clinton].

Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.

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.

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

Misfortunes should always be expected.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.