Expected famous quotes

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
-- A. P. Herbert

#Hope #Men #Expected

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
-- A. Philip Randolph

#Beneficiaries #Expected

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.
-- Abbi Glines

#Wish #Easier #Expected

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
-- Alice James

#Unexpected #Expected

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
-- Amy Tan

#Failure #Expected

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.
-- Ann Brashares

#Looks #Way #Expected

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.
-- Anna Kournikova

#People #Whole Life #Expected

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
-- Arabella Weir

#Feelings #These Days #Expected

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

#Loneliness #World #Expected

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.
-- B. J. Novak

#Perfect #Type #Expected

The expected always happens
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Expected

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#People #Expected

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
-- Brigitte Bardot

#Film #Expected

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going
-- Budd Schulberg

#Tough #Conform #Expected

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
-- Charles Dickens

#Turns #Expected

On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far
-- Cher Lloyd

#Firsts #Expected

But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Expected

I expected to go into journalism or law.
-- Christie Hefner

#Law #Journalism #Expected

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

#Expected #Movie Business

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!
-- Clay Aiken

#Broadway #Made #Expected

So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.
-- Cynthia Hand

#Thinking #Expected #Capable

Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.
-- David Lange

#Nice #Expected

Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious
-- Declan Donnellan

#Reality #Shock #Expected

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.
-- Dee Dee Ramone

#Lucky #Next #Expected

How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.
-- Denis Johnson

#Lows #Expected #Persons

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected...
-- Dennis Ritchie

#Numbers #Unix #Expected

To those who much has been given, much is expected.
-- Don Meyer

#Basketball #Given #Expected

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy
-- Dyan Cannon

#Thinking #Make Me Happy #Expected

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
-- Edward G. Begle

#Complicated #Mathematics #Expected

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
-- Eliot Spitzer

#Standards #Disappointed #Expected

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
-- Elizabeth Janeway

#Aging #Feels #Expected

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
-- Elizabeth Lesser

#Matter #Expected

I never expected to be anybody important.
-- Elvis Presley

#Important #Expected

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.
-- Emma Bull

#Heart #Expected

Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
-- Evan Esar

#Expectations #Littles #Expected

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett

#Long #Expected #Manage

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?
-- Francois Hollande

#Risk #President #Expected

Happiness often comes when least expected.
-- François Lelord

#Expected

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
-- Frank B. Kellogg

#Human Nature #Humans #Expected

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

#Generations #Given #Expected

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Believe #Struggle #Expected

I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
-- Gary Clark, Jr.

#Campaigns #Expected #Ads

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.
-- Georgette Heyer

#People #House #Expected

Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
-- Hal Riney

#Opposites #Expected

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.
-- Helena Bonham Carter

#Apes #Said #Expected

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
-- Henry James

#Worst #Expected

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
-- Howard Hodgkin

#People #Wish #Expected

Had he expected me to hump her leg?
-- Ilona Andrews

#Legs #Expected

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.
-- Jacob August Riis

#Men #Tricks #Expected

I'm feeling better than expected.
-- Jan Ullrich

#Feel Better #Feelings #Expected

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.
-- Jason Mraz

#Realizing #Expected #Persons

Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!
-- Jeff Belanger

#Light #Years #Expected

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

#One Day #Cameras #Expected

Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.
-- Jodi Lynn Anderson

#Loyalty #Funny Things #Expected

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.
-- Joel Spolsky

#Programming #Behave #Expected

They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
-- John Adams

#Acknowledge #Expected

This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.
-- John Ajvide Lindqvist

#Way #Lost #Expected

To those whom much is given, much is expected.
-- John F. Kennedy

#Inspirational #Given #Expected

Health is my expected heaven.
-- John Keats

#Health #Heaven #Expected

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
-- John Ortberg

#Wish #Expected #Trusted

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
-- John Tukey

#Force #Expected #Values

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

#Believer #Expected

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

#Difficulty #Esteem #Expected

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
-- Judi Dench

#Want #Great Things #Expected

Always deliver more than expected.
-- Larry Page

#Business #Expected

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
-- Louis de Bernieres

#Childhood #Insanity #Expected

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
-- Maeve Binchy

#Good Life #Expected

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
-- Margaret Chase Smith

#Honor #Expected

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

#Expected

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
-- Maria Doyle Kennedy

#Men #Submissive #Expected

As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Republican #Clinton #Expected

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
-- Mary MacLane

#Doe #Genius #Expected

To those who are given much, much is expected.
-- Maya Angelou

#Inspirational #Given #Expected

I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.
-- Michael Ian Black

#Men #Guy #Expected

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.
-- Michael Michele

#Prepared #Expected

It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
-- Nadia Comaneci

#Kids #Games #Expected

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Unexpected #Should #Expected

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
-- Patti Smith

#Expected

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

#Teacher #Actors #Expected

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!
-- Peter Garrett

#Next #May #Expected

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
-- Quintilian

#Sometimes #Expected

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
-- Ralph Ellison

#Trying #Lost #Expected

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

#World #Coincidence #Expected

You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience.
-- Richard Ramirez

#Understand Me #Expected

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

#Expected

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

#Able #Feels #Expected

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
-- Rudy Rucker

#Gnarly #Might #Expected

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

#Knees #Lasts #Expected

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.
-- Samuel Alexander

#Firsts #Expected

While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.
-- Sara Sheridan

#Frustrated #Expected

I have always... expected a lot from myself.
-- Scarlett Johansson

#Expected

Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something.
-- Scott Berkun

#Experiments #Expected

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
-- Shonda Rhimes

#Forever #Unexpected #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.
-- SQuire Rushnell

#Expected

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

#Heart #Way #Expected

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

#Growth #Expected

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Expected

A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.
-- Tove Jansson

#Looks #Persons #Expected

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.
-- Tracey Ullman

#Scene #Expected

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
-- Tycho Brahe

#Ignorant #Astronomers #Expected