Expected Quotes
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To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.
Sarah Addison Allen -
The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
Seneca the Younger
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I never expected to be happy, to have a sense of belonging somewhere. I didn't grow up with a sense that this was possible or even desirable. I'm quite sure my parents didn't either, so I come by this honestly.
Camilla Gibb -
Yeah, sometimes it gets a little sappy for me, but I'm tired of hearing about dysfunctional families in sitcoms. That's been done to death, and that's probably what everybody expected from me. But that's not what I wanted to do.
Mike Judge -
Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be likeable and pliant. We are also trained to expect any success we attain to come to us through men - by pleasing men, as good employees, good partners.
Catherine Mayer -
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
Jane Austen -
A lot of people expected a lot of things and they should. Sexson's probably doing better than what people think. I'm not doing close to what people think. But that's baseball.
Adrian Beltre -
I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.
Jennifer Garner
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Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
Seth Godin -
It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!
Kathryn Tucker Windham -
. . . 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 -
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.
Ayobami Adebayo -
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.
Nicole Kidman
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My career has been going better than expected, and I'm grateful.
William Singe -
Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
J. R. R. Tolkien -
It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.
Mike McCarthy -
Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.
Thomas Sowell -
It was everything I expected it to be.
Cole Hamels -
For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
Stephen Spender
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Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.
Robert Webb -
Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
John Motson -
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.
Morris Kline -
I think maybe a little more was expected from the women's program because of the success we've had, both at South Dakota State and here. It's not as much of a shocker, but I think we've opened some eyes that, quickly, we've been able to compete without having to spend a lot of time in the transition to Division I.
Amy Ruley