Expected Quotes · Page 22

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

— Og Mandino

I'm always expected to hit a home run; but, sometimes you can win the game with a bunt.

— Jeff Arnold

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

— Annie Leibovitz

“Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States…

— Jim Harrison

Anyone that coaches their son, you expect more out of your boy. I'm not talking about stats, but I expected him to…

— Paul Coffey

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest…

— J. K. Rowling

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

— Mary Downing Hahn

We're breaking records and we're moving forward. I always expected to win Grand Slams. This was meant to be.

— Venus Williams

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and…

— Nicolas Cage

People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader,…

— Megan Fox

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail…

— Eva Ibbotson

A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to…

— Ian Macfarlane

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while…

— Joan Baez

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,…

— Bertrand Russell

I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players…

— Daniel Rossen

Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which…

— Elise Hu

It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in…

— Chinua Achebe

To have privilege in one or more areas does not mean you are wholly privileged. Surrendering to the acceptance of privilege is…

— Roxane Gay

We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody…

— Bashar al-Assad

My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication…

— Margaret Chase Smith

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by…

— Sophia Loren

Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really…

— Sarah Kay

“Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.

— Jimmy Carter

Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it…

— SQuire Rushnell

Just because it isn't what you expected, doesn't mean it isn't everything you've been waiting for...

— Anonymous

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

— Nicolas Chamfort

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

— Robin Sloan

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

— Anonymous

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books,

— Eddy Cue

I always expected something but I realized, in life nothing can ever be expected.

— Jonathan

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

— MC Paul Barman

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the…

— Anna Quindlen

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

— Charlize Theron

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

— Mary Renault