Expected Quotes
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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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For I had expected always
Some brightness to hold in trust,
Some final innocence
To save from dust
Stephen Spender
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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
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Life is full of all sorts of things, and I never expected to be a part of this. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. So you never know.
Erin Wasson
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A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.
Raquel Cassidy
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It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.
Sarah Dessen
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Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.
Geraldine Jewsbury
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You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve.
Ed Vargo
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
Tom Shadyac
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My goal, my dream has already come true. Every kid's dream is to become a pro skater, you know? Not only have I become a pro skater, but to me personally, I ride for the best sponsors there are. That's even more than I ever expected... I didn't skate to please everyone else. I started skating because I love to skate. you gotta watch out because there will come a point where you'll forget that.
Paul Rodriguez
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Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've prepared, done the work, and EXPECT TO WIN!!
Red McCombs
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It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
Thomas Sowell
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I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read.
Mike Gallagher
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The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.
Merle Shain
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As we act in faith, we often find that the blessings from the Lord are different than we expected but much better than we imagined.
Neil L. Andersen
