Expected Quotes

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media.

I think it's important to have a consistent communication with the fans but I don't think it should be expected.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

Have you ever noticed that even if God allows you to have a dream, you're expected to work to make it happen?

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

Give something that wasn't expected.

Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost.

I love celebrities who aren't afraid to take risks. And in the end, it pays off. Some celebs just have the freshest outfits, and they're always giving us something that we never expected.

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected.

After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.

Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

gratitude, n. A sentiment lying midway between a benefit received and a benefit expected.