Expected Quotes
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You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
Ernest Mandel
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To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.
Eva Ibbotson
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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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It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.
Isaac Watts
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I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?
Ayobami Adebayo
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If the job is not what you expected and not even your cup of tea, stay put and learn as much as you can while you carefully consider your next move.
Alexandra Levit
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I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.
Stephen Fry
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
Elizabeth Lesser
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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
Jane Austen
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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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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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Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
Seth Godin
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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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It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.
Mordecai Richler
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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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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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Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.
Edward G. Begle
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Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them.
Reggie Lewis
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Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Life is not what you expected it to be.
Lauren Bacall
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The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.
Richard Platt
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
Paul Newman
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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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You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve.
Ed Vargo