Expected Quotes

As God’s chosen, blessed sons and daughters, we are expected to attempt something large enough that failure is guaranteed…unless God steps in.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Expect to get more than you expected [from Crash Landing project]. Expect more than a mixtape.

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected

Your dreams may not be happening, and things aren't turning out the way you expected, but that doesn't mean your life is spinning out of control. It just means you're not in control.

Why is it apparently the philosopher who is expected to be "easier" and not some scientist or other who is even more inaccessible to the same readers?

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different correct program is extremely challenging.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.

The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

Health is my expected heaven.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Discipline and consistency is what's expected out of a player.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time