Expected Quotes · Page 30

This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

— Rob Corddry

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

— Calvin Harris

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

— Gloria Steinem

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build…

— John W. Thompson

I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough…

— Jessie Mueller

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

— Haim Ginott

My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of…

— Larry Fitzgerald

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to…

— Anonymous

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each,…

— Buffalo Bill

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place…

— Peter Garrett

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by…

— Baratunde Thurston

At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies;…

— Richard Kerry

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we…

— Joshua Harris

We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must…

— Mary Blakely

I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same…

— Woody Allen

I travel as much as I do. It isn't the life I expected. I don't know what dust of pollen will come…

— Jane Hirshfield

I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted…

— Dick Cheney

Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry…

— Mike W. Barr

Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives:…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the…

— William Wilberforce

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected.…

— Sarah Dessen

My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore,…

— Anonymous

For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from…

— Susanna Kaysen

This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.

— Richelle Mead

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

— C. S. Lewis

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

— Peter Fonda

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to…

— Ken Livingstone

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

— Harry Browne

It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on…

— Ben Stiller

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

— Robbie Robertson

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out…

— Joni Mitchell

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

— Martial

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

— Elizabeth Janeway

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere…

— Michael Jensen

“Perhaps I expected to look in and find a giant canary, stretched out on a carpet of dust, songless, capable of only…

— Ray Bradbury

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get . . . Only with what you are expected to…

— Katharine Hepburn

The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

— Eliot Spitzer