Expected Quotes

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.

After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

I never expected that this would be my life.

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

Death by hanging... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.

I find a lot of people struggling in their lives because they feel like it was expected they do a certain thing or act a certain way and not follow what their gut is telling them to do.

The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One

I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

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.

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.

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

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was

My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

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

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.

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.

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.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.