Expected Quotes · Page 12

Death, however long expected, is sudden at the last.

— Mary Jane Holmes

People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.

— Kapil Dev

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

— Samuel Johnson

“A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.”

— Henrietta C. Mears

At Chelsea we are expected to win every game.

— Oscar

“Things always end more suddenly than expected.”

— Chris Pavone

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

— Alan Turing

To those who are given much, much is expected.

— Maya Angelou

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

— Georgette Heyer

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an…

— Harry Markowitz

When you win, that's what you're expected to do and when you lose, people get on your back.

— Mickey Arthur

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

— Fred D'Aguiar

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

— Mark Twain

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

— Bertrand Russell

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

— Erin Wasson

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift…

— Jodi Picoult

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to…

— Anonymous

If you're a working mom, you're still expected to be a super-mom at home, buy organic food, put dinner on the table…

— Joe Swanberg

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line…

— Tom Perrotta

Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made…

— Peter Medawar

If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing,…

— Suzanne Weyn

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number…

— David Chalmers

Marla [from Rules Don't Apply] especially, believed that she has a certain set of rules that she had to abide by, in…

— Lily Collins

Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in…

— Tahir Shah

I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their…

— Ellie Goulding

He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship…

— Christine Feehan

She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt…

— Kristin Cashore

In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees,…

— Michelle Alexander

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in…

— Dick Van Dyke

“Tyson okay?” I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He’s fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though…

— Rick Riordan

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

— Jeff Cunningham

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

— Brigitte Bardot

Happiness often comes when least expected.

— François Lelord

I never expected to be anybody important.

— Elvis Presley

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

— Michael Specter

I expected Ronda to be a beast. You know what? Ronda's a beast.

— Bruce Buffer

I have always... expected a lot from myself.

— Scarlett Johansson

“ I was a child of wealth, expected to do nothing but everything.”

— Alessandra Torre