Expected Quotes · Page 19

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200…

— Michele Bachmann

Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the…

— William Forsyth Sharpe

I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make…

— Paula Radcliffe

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

— Junot Diaz

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected…

— Donald Barthelme

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

— Frederick Scott Oliver

True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected.

— Paulo Coelho

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming…

— Lisa Kudrow

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all…

— Buck Owens

Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can…

— Rufus Reid

When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy…

— Carlton Cuse

Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace…

— Stephen Kinzer

I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way…

— Margaret Mead

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional…

— Julian Baggini

The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be…

— Elisabeth Elliot

The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever…

— Hanne Blank

I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing.…

— Kat Graham

You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted,…

— Lauren Bacall

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves;…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations…

— Barack Obama

“It was a mistake… I made a lot of them. When it came to me and you. I expected you to read…

— Kasie West

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

— Viktor E. Frankl

I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

— Judith Butler

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's…

— Kim Cattrall

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

— Mohsin Hamid

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

— Anonymous

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in…

— Jane Austen

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

— Elbert Hubbard

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

— Maria Monk

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as…

— Thomas Carlyle

Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

— Eddie Jones

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

— Twyla Tharp

No one can tell you what your path is . . . but someday you'll discover it. . . and it won't…

— Lisa Kleypas

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

— Jacques Derrida

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected.…

— Abraham Lincoln