Expected Quotes
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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 -
Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.
Abraham Lincoln
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
Kate Winslet -
Nobody expected me to win Wimbledon. It was something to strive for.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better.
Alexander Lukashenko -
They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me I didn't have to complete all of them, that it wasn't expected of me. But I knew everyone was watching me, so I gave up meals and sleep and completed all 18 experiments. It's a very Korean thing to do.
Yi So-Yeon -
When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.
Albert Einstein -
It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
Larry Bird
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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 -
The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker -
The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
Shonda Rhimes -
I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.
Ellie Goulding -
I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.
Andrew Mason -
Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.
Ted Dekker
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Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers.
Francis Chan -
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher -
But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.
Sherman Alexie -
It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!
Wilbur Smith -
The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One
Kathleen McGowan -
If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.
William Francis Buckley
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Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
Brian Tracy -
Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselvesā¦. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.
Whittaker Chambers -
Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.
Eve Arnold -
We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.
Tony Blair