Expected Out Quotes

#1. She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

Ali Smith

#2. I'm doing my job. I'm doing what's expected out of me, and I'm proud of the way I've been able to perform and contribute.

Pau Gasol

#3. It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

Jay Asher

#4. One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.

Kathy Reichs

#5. Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

Frances Mayes

#6. Well, none of us, as far as I can see, are doing what we intended to do right now, but I think we'll make out just the same. It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be.

Margaret Mitchell

#7. The Rich man was let alone in his sin suffered to go on without molestation. He fared sumptuously every day, slept secure and expected no disturbance. And the first of his awaking out of his security was when he lifted up his eyes that were now opened being in torments.

Jonathan Edwards

#8. I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

Mary Roach

#9. Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#10. We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.

Michael Sheen

#11. I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?"
"Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

Lloyd Alexander

#12. What else did you expect from helping someone out? Isn't it enough that you've done what your nature demands? You want a salary for it too? As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That's what they were made for.

Marcus Aurelius

#13. I came here looking to finish school quietly. Stay out of trouble. Maybe write some new songs. I never expected you.

Anonymous

#14. She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.

Lev Grossman

#15. Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don't work out as they expected.

Heather Chapple

#16. Sterling turned to Michael. I expected her to ask him something, but instead she just held out her hand. "Keys."
"Spatula," Michael replied. She narrowed her eyes at him. "We aren't just saying random nouns?" he asked archly.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#17. In secondary school, a boy and a girl go out, both of them teenagers with meager pocket money. Yet the boy is expected to pay the bills, always, to prove his masculinity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#18. Up in front, Fritz, as his name was, was driving like a bat out of hell - not exactly something you expected from a butler who looked like he was seven thousand years old.

J.R. Ward

#19. Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only heart murmurs for talk.

Ray Bradbury

#20. Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process.

Jane Green

#21. Where is he?' said Frodo, looking round, as if he expected a masked and sinister figure to come out of a cupboard.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.

Richard Hamming

#23. I'll be giving a speech at the randomest place, like a bank or something, and a guy in a suit will say, 'I'm totally freaked out that I'm talking to the girl from 'Cremaster.' For the rest of my life, that movie will be playing in a museum somewhere. I never could have expected that huge response.

Aimee Mullins

#24. It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

Jack Osbourne

#25. Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.

Jandy Nelson

#26. You know you are working on clean code when each routine turns out to be pretty much what you expected." Half

Robert C. Martin

#27. I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?

Lisa Edelstein

#28. Although we have been successful in our careers, they have not turned out quite as we expected. We both have changed positions several times - for all the right reasons - but there are no pension plans vesting on our behalf. Our retirement funds are growing only through our individual contributions.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#29. The blatant harassment of electromagnetic radiation researchers should be expected to be a feature of transitioning out of the energy based economies.

Steven Magee

#30. I walked out into the living room and Travis smiled, not the reaction I expected at all.
You ... are beautiful.

Jamie McGuire

#31. She greeted him with a smile, holding her hand out for him to kiss (...) Nevertheless he went to one knee and pressed his lips against her knuckles. Her flesh was warmer than he'd expected and he angered himself for enjoying the sensation.

Anthony Ryan

#32. Anyone that coaches their son, you expect more out of your boy. I'm not talking about stats, but I expected him to be the hardest worker out there.

Paul Coffey

#33. There were women, too. They were a little more what I expected. Tight jeans. Tank tops without bras. Evening makeup at noon. Jersey hair. The general vibe varied from "wouldn't look out of place on a corner of 47th" to "could work at a really nice strip club.

Kelley Armstrong

#34. We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Libba Bray

#35. 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.

Rand Paul

#36. Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

Eckhart Tolle

#37. Just as Manda Lewis's impressions of the world had been informed by her reading
leading her to expect balls, duels, and conveniently timed thunderstorms out of life
so, too, had mine; but what I expected was intellectual commerce between equals.

Marie Brennan

#38. She dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.

Karen Cushman

#39. Marriage is likely to be what is called happy if niether party ever expected to get much happiness out of it

Bertrand Russell

#40. AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn't expected.

Kevin Lynch

#41. 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.

Pete Wilson

#42. I expected everyone to file out of the room, but the wedding party began to embrace happily. Raymond grabbed me. "God, you're a mess." He wiped the dampness on my cheeks with his index finger. "Such a mush.

Santino Hassell

#43. I think I have something that belongs to you'. I held out my open hand, the stone resting in my palm. I expected her to take it. Instead she took the whole hand, and held it.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#44. In Ethiopia ... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?

Joanna Lumley

#45. The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a boy sitting in the dirt with his fingers in a mane of blond hair.
He stared at nothing. Expected nothing. Planned nothing.
Just sat.

Michael Grant

#46. I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

Nick Park

#47. When good times turn out way bigger than you first expected, that's when you know you're on a roll!

Stephen Richards

#48. Fuck me. This man was insanely hot, not someone I expected to come across out here. This was the middle of nowhere USA, not the Australian outback for Christ's sake.

Penelope Ward

#49. Movements never quite exist, they are passages, intermediaries between two existences, moments of weakness, I expected to see them come out of nothingness, progressively ripen, blossom: I was finally going to surprise beings in the process of being born.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#50. Do you remember when you came in and got me out of the harvesting room at Dakiti? I hadn't expected to ever see you again, and you just said--"

"Of course I came back, you idiot.

E.J. Fisch

#51. Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.

Walt Disney

#52. Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Loretta Lynn

#53. Bullshitting god would be Max's plan in a nutshell. Miles could even guess his father's opening gambit. He'd point out to God that if He expected better results, He ought to have given Max better character to work with, instead of sending him into battle so poorly equipped.

Richard Russo

#54. The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.

Vladimir Lenin

#55. Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or inside! Get into the cupboard with some spinach!" When I was a child they'd kick you out and you weren't expected to come back until there were bats!

Dylan Moran

#56. Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.

Serge Schmemann

#57. A lot of nonsense is spoken about work. Some of the finest men I've known were the laziest. Never work because it's expected of you. Find out how much work you must do to live and be happy. Don't do any more.

James A. Michener

#58. For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.

Stewart O'Nan

#59. Betty's lesson is much deeper than I ever expected:I wanted popularity; I wanted other people to like me. But it turns out most people are wanting to be discovered too.

Maya Van Wagenen

#60. We can't force life to do what we want when we want it. We can't change yesterday or control tomorrow. We can only live today as best we can. And it just might turn out better than expected

Sarah McCoy

#61. If one is to have fear, it should be of God, who has revealed, "And whoever fears God, He will make for him a way out. And He will provide for him in a way he never expected. And whoever trusts in God, He is sufficient for him" (QUR'AN , 65:2

Hamza Yusuf

#62. How on earth could a complete stranger be expected to tease out the inner logic of something he himself had dreamed up, to find a way to make it come alive?

Han Kang

#63. You never know what will be expected of you, so you just go out and play.

Manu Ginobili

#64. When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.

Alan Brennert

#65. The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.

Maggie Stiefvater

#66. I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you.

Susane Colasanti

#67. Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

Judi Dench

#68. Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.

Ariel Meadow Stallings

#69. I know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it didn't work out, or they didn't have children because they were trying to get their careers going, or because they were expected to be independent, plus have a family. They didn't feel secure enough.

Uma Thurman

#70. In 1979, Alien came out and Sigourney was in it with a bunch a guys. Nobody at that time expected the woman to be the hero, so that was a tradition that started.

Sanaa Lathan

#71. When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

Matthew Henry

#72. Sometimes, not handing out the punishment when it is most expected is the best way to bring lasting repentance.

Subroto Bagchi

#73. And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

Patty Hearst

#74. She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected ... One was a wad of cash ... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!

Rick Riordan

#75. I should never have expected loyalty from a Douglas," he spat out. He turned his back on her and went to the window.

Margaret Mallory

#76. The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

Harry Browne

#77. I liked the shorthand we seemed to fall into when nobody else was around, the easy intimacy that had sprung up between us. I liked the way he turned his face and looked at me with amusement, like I had somehow turned out to be so much more than he had expected. On

Jojo Moyes

#78. Yes, he had made a good choice after all when he had chosen the God of the green pasture and the still waters! He was very powerful, and the fact that He expected you to think for yourself and do something in return for His help did not matter, as long as you could work things out.

Anne Holm

#79. I'm going to need you to stay calm." "What I need is a bottle of Xanax," Christina huffed. "You'll be fine." Melissa glanced at the clock. As expected, Jonathan rushed out of the bedroom, grabbing the mug she was holding out for him, and

A.V. Scott

#80. I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism - being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer's character.

Dave Barry

#81. It irritates the hell out of me to be in a situation where I'm forced to do exactly what's expected.

Neal Stephenson

#82. Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America.

William Dean Howells

#83. you can plan so that nothing goes wrong in life. But something will, and it won't be what you expected to go wrong. So make sure you're with someone who will help you bail the water out of the boat, not someone who will blame you for the hole.

Kristin Billerbeck

#84. Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.

Kristy Hinze

#85. So when time had begun to run out on Adelia with no really acceptable husband in sight, she'd married money
crude money, button money. She was expected to refine this money, like oil.

Margaret Atwood

#86. So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said.
'Except it feels good now, at this moment.

Kent Haruf

#87. And so, out of bloody-mindedness, I had said the word, and we went for the first time, into those Bombay Central alleys that have no name. Lamba introduced me simply as 'The Moor', and because I came with him there was less contempt than I had expected.

Salman Rushdie

#88. I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance

Maryrose Wood

#89. If we were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.

Kerstin Gier

#90. Thought I might be late,' said Yaxley, his blunt features sliding in and out of sight as the branches of overhanging trees broke the moonlight. 'It was a little trickier than I expected. But I hope he will be satisfied. You sound confident that your reception will be good?

J.K. Rowling

#91. Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.

Tyler Cowen

#92. The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.

Gerry Beckley

#93. My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

Stephen Hawking

#94. So here I was in the middle of the AI world-not just hanging out there but totally dependent on the people if I expected to have a job once I graduated-and yet, day by day, AI started to seem insane. This is also what I do: I get myself trapped inside of things that seem insane.

Philip E. Agre

#95. This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength.

Bret Easton Ellis

#96. I asked myself not why I was alive but why I had lived. Out of expectation, I supposed, and wondered whether I still expected anything. It seemed I did.

Something more is always expected.

Antonio Di Benedetto

#97. The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#98. I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or out of the home. Until this attitude prevails I believe the position of women will be uncertain and undignified, in spite of poetic rhapsodies to the contrary.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#99. Did you pick that out? I asked Dimitri. Honestly, I would have expected him to bend a piece of steel with his bare hands and present her with that.

Richelle Mead

#100. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

James Baldwin