Expected Quotes · Page 16

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

— Jane Austen

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we…

— Louisa May Alcott

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

— Leo Rosten

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor...

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I know when I first started working with Manny that he was something special. But eight world titles? No one could have…

— Freddie Roach

I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving…

— Mickey Mantle

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it…

— Scott Patterson

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near,…

— Carl von Clausewitz

On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and…

— Shaun White

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected…

— Tony Robbins

Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole…

— Lucy Larcom

I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim…

— Jim Shaw

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I always expected to be working construction with my family, so every day I get to travel the world and have fun…

— Travis Pastrana

Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was…

— Allen W. Wood

I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as…

— Rufus Wainwright

The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would…

— Marti Webb

It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can…

— Daniel Alarcon

(Unsure if she should laugh or groan, Astrid held fast to the tank before her as Zarek pushed the snowmachine to the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free…

— Hannah Arendt

To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in…

— Choi Hong Hi

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

— Lil Durk

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

— Alice Hoffman

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

— Tim Cook

We expected to have a good time with Clive Anderson 'cause I've always liked him, his shows.

— Maurice Gibb

The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.

— Shonda Rhimes

I definitely like a little bit of darkness, a little edge. I get a little bored when things are maybe too simple…

— Deborah Ann Woll

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win…

— Daisaku Ikeda

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy…

— Laurie Anderson

no one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it,

— Abbi Glines

We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.

— Audre Lorde

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

— Mindy Grossman

I don't think Enrique Pena Nieto expected [visit]. I don't think anybody expected it to be so quick, the response [like Donald…

— Jose Diaz-Balart

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

— Mark Twain

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

— Charles Francis Richter