Top 100 Quotes About Expected
#1. Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard
#2. As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
Ivan Pavlov
#3. You can waste a whole lifetime
Trying to be
What you think is expected of you
But youll never be free
Chris Rea
#4. When healing, the healer should be calm and detached. He should not be nervous, "overconcerned" or attached to the expected results. Otherwise, the projected pranic energy will not be released and will return to him.
Choa Kok Sui
#5. And is this all?" cried Elizabeth. "I expected at least that the pigs were got into the garden, and here is nothing but Lady Catherine and her daughter.
Jane Austen
#6. Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the form we expected, or even thought we desired, but it will come, and we will recognize it by how we feel. In spite of everything, we will feel at peace.
Marianne Williamson
#7. I should rip your eyes out," Newt said, spraying Thomas with spit. "Teach you a lesson in stupidity.
Why'd you come over here? You expected a bloody hug? Huh? A nice sit-down to talk about the good
times in the Glade?
James Dashner
#8. Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."
The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.
P.L. Travers
#9. Corruption.
like anything it is systematic, and without a level of corruption ost societies would seize up, the levels of accepted/expected political corruption don't even raise eyebrows anymore, especially when it runs parallel to our economic systems, so I guess we are stuck with it.
Steve Merrick
#10. A lot of producers always say "what direction are you going in?" and I don't know. I'm just doing music. Right now it's going well. It's a little slow, but it's expected because I haven't been in the studio for a minute.
Ginuwine
#11. It's about creating a place to belong before people are expected to behave or even believe.
Jen Hatmaker
#12. LaShon knew that there was no way that was going to happen. She had dealt with her fair share of jail relationships and every time the dude came home he expected to pick up things where they left off at as if nothing ever happened.
Kevina Hopkins
#14. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#15. I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books,
Eddy Cue
#16. 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
#17. Perhaps you expected to feel great as soon as you escaped your abuser, and maybe you did feel a great sense of relief for a while. However, as time has passed, you may be dismayed by the extent of your emotional pain.
Caroline Abbott
#18. I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
Ed Rollins
#19. She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.
Per Petterson
#20. It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
Rachel Cusk
#21. He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own.
Neil Gaiman
#22. Because way back before you were even born there was this girl you see. And I fell in love with her. It was something that I wanted-love-not because it was expected of me, but because I found it out my self-that happiness of wanting to be with that other person.
Marianne Wiggins
#23. Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#24. As expected, extreme and complete isolation was the cause of her immense strength and speed. God help us all, we will send her to the Forest to see how long she lasts, to better understand her. It is through her sacrifice that we grow stronger. It is through His glory that we survive. I
Carrie Ryan
#25. So her sister was not as miserable as Jane had expected because she was deluded.
Timothy Underwood
#26. Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.
Jessica Valenti
#27. Where did the boy genius go? He had been, as a child, expected to be a neurosurgeon, or a great novelist. And now he's considering (or, okay, refusing to consider) law school. Was the burden of his potential too much for him?
Michael Cunningham
#28. Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#29. All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago
Larry Hagman
#30. So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.
Cynthia Hand
#31. Last night with Rhys. It was ... the first time in years that I felt so loved. For what I am, for my faults and my virtues, for my past and my future. I haven't had that with a man since ... since I had it with you. And I never expected to have it again.
Elizabeth George
#32. There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
Barbara Kingsolver
#33. She came back to me at 10.01 the next morning, a mirror time, as I'd expected.
Olivia Sudjic
#34. I admire you. You have learned to rise with the wind, rather than fight it. Too many people struggle to become what is expected of them, when, as we both know, what is expected of us is rarely what we desire.
C.W. Gortner
#35. The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
James Anthony Froude
#36. It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual.
Jacques Barzun
#37. You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.
Arthur Ashe
#38. Is it acting a true vocation? ... I say it is a gift ... And fame? Neither sought nor expected ... still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the reason ... I am so very delighted that it did happen ... I would not have missed it for the world ...
Ruth Cracknell
#39. All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
Lawrence Durrell
#40. Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.
Michael Specter
#41. The adventure is not in arriving, it's in the on-the-way experience. It is not in the expected; it's in the surprise. You
Ruskin Bond
#42. Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. The average age of our members is about 79. They expected them (leaders) to be taking care of everything, and in reality, they were taking care of nothing.
R. Gerald Turner
#44. One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.
Georges Danton
#45. A flower is no less beautiful because it does not bloom in the expected form. Because it lasts an hour, not days.
Alexandra Bracken
#46. At best an autistic spectrum child may learn what's expected of him, and how to relate to those about him, but it never becomes instinctive. Even a high-functioning adult will sometimes use inappropriate language, conversation or behavior.
Sara Elliott Price
#47. In practice the democratic 'revolutionary' type of discipline is more reliable than might be expected.
George Orwell
#49. Dance is an image. As painting is a song. Simulacra simulate. A rite repeats a metaphora (a voyage). Moving trucks in modern-day Greece still have the word METAPHORA on their sides. A myth is the danced image of the rite itself, which is expected to attract the world.
Pascal Quignard
#50. It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.
Cassandra Clare
#51. He shushed her. "Goodnight. We're trapped together in a small, dark space. For the moment, we're getting on as well as could possibly be expected. I don't think this is the time to remind me of my many valid reasons to resent your presence and despise everything you stand for.
Tessa Dare
#52. He liked being big and strong. It gave him an identity. He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own. Nobody until Laura, anyway.
Neil Gaiman
#53. I'd need either really high heeled shoes to avoid tripping over, or I was just expected to shuffle along like a slug...
Nicola Claire
#54. If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.
Maria Bartiromo
#55. At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.
Frank Thomas
#56. A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
Mark Twain
#57. Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
William O. Douglas
#58. Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by ourselves going through these uncharted waters. But it's become more understood, embraced and accepted, and now it's pretty much expected by fans for athletes, leagues and teams to be there.
Amy Jo Martin
#59. Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.
Ayn Rand
#60. Pushing the boundaries of what is expected of you is important to me.
Kevin Spacey
#61. It became clear to me that they expected children to submit to the school system and sacrifice their own interests, even if that would break their spirit. I
Jan Hunt
#62. Just as [he] had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter ...
Orson Scott Card
#63. Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.
Ted Dekker
#64. Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.
Nick Bostrom
#65. She fully expected to see a maniacal killer raising his arms with a plastic bag in his hands to suffocate her
Elle Klass
#66. I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.
Lorin Stein
#67. Tess exited YouTube, Binged Richard Widmark, and found what she expected, given
Stephen King
#68. When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.
Cory Doctorow
#69. Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
Brandon Sanderson
#70. When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.
John Barrasso
#71. I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
Romesh Gunesekera
#72. The CMO is expected to spend more on technology than the CIO by 2017.
Marc Benioff
#73. In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
E.B. White
#74. I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.
Shawn Colvin
#75. Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#76. It seems insane to be expected to lie in a dark room alone and not feel completely crazy and bipolar and confused and more awake.
Jordan Castro
#77. From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.
Robert Pozen
#78. Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.
Niles Eldredge
#79. It is expected that such an increase will produce an eventual average global temperature rise of between three and a half and seven degrees Fahrenheit,
Elizabeth Kolbert
#80. You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
William Shatner
#81. She wondered why no one saw through her disguise. Perhaps people could see only what they expected, what fit inside their vision, as if human vision came in precut shapes more narrow than the world itself, and this allowed her to hide in plain sight.
Carolina De Robertis
#82. I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple or too ... expected.
Deborah Ann Woll
#83. I never expected my story to change, but it did. Stories tend to do that; you go out searching for something and come back with something different.
Katy Evans
#84. By the age of seven, as an eldest boy, I was expected to help the family with the money. !!!!!!!!!!
Izzeldin Abuelaish
#85. Out of the 1.2 billion people in India, one-third of them are between the age of 1-14 and by 2030, India will have a dynamic and youthful workforce of about 700 million with an average age of 35. This is expected to constitute a substantial proportion of world's workforce.
Vayalar Ravi
#86. Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. We are expected to ponder, to search, to evaluate, and thereby to come to a personal knowledge of the truth.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#87. Always deliver more than expected.
Larry Page
#88. I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.
Melvin Helitzer
#89. I could go on and on. But that is just what gardening is, going on and on. My philistine of a husband often told with amusement how a cousin when asked when he expected to finish his garden replied 'Never, I hope'. And that, I think, applies to all true gardeners.
Margery Fish
#90. Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises.
Mae West
#91. Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.
Nicholas Sparks
#92. I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
Vera Wang
#93. A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility
Haile Selassie
#94. I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
Jodi Picoult
#95. There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.
T.F. Hodge
#96. Fauvism was our ordeal by fire ... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light ... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.
Andre Derain
#97. Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.
Chris Guillebeau
#98. I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills
#99. I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
#100. I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy
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