Expected Quotes

I never expected that this would be my life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be achieved, were woven into the fabric that linked oneself to all. . .

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.

EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.