Expected Quotes
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The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected.
Heidi Hammel
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For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust
Stephen Spender
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It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.
Gary Payton
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Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people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
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. . . 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
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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
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I have always... expected a lot from myself.
Scarlett Johansson
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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
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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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EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.
Terry Teachout
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Then Brás woke up and realized that when you turn that corner, that future you have written and wished for is not always there waiting for you. In fact, it usually isn't at all what you expected... around the corner there is just another big annoying question mark. It's called life.
Fábio Moon
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Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
John Motson
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It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.
Mike McCarthy
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Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
Rudolf Arnheim
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My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.
Troian Bellisario
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Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
John Maynard Keynes
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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
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
Carroll Quigley
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I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.
Jennifer Garner
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Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.
Hal Higdon
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At the end, I noticed they were a little angry and frustrated, but that's to be expected.
Andres Nocioni
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I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.
Richard Pryor