Expected Quotes · Page 31

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

— Annie Parisse

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

— Anonymous

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

— Julia Cameron

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

— Louis de Bernieres

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

— Eric S. Raymond

“I don't know who I am anymore." I expected the world to crack open and the sky to fall once I said…

— Lili St. Crow

The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of…

— Seneca the Younger

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you…

— Timothy Keller

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The…

— Richelle Mead

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the…

— Eliot Spitzer

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true.…

— Gary Shteyngart

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You…

— Ronaldinho

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the…

— Augusten Burroughs

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without…

— Albert Einstein

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about…

— Jonathan Lethem

I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the…

— Roger Federer

Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and…

— Jerry Lynch

At 36, I think I was pretty happy [actually], but here's the thing that I think happens... you're expected to be somewhere…

— Justin Hartley

Listen, you. Don't threaten me. I could make your life a nightmare. He put his hand in front of her face and…

— Julie Garwood

I saw so many kids 22, 19, with holes the size of a dime and they're dead. It's a gunshot and of…

— Milo Ventimiglia

“Not what you expected, huh?” she asked in a sad voice. I wrapped a towel around her and drew her close to…

— Richelle Mead

Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,…

— Raymond Geuss

A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A…

— Baron de Montesquieu

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're…

— Carrie Underwood

You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected…

— Arthur Ashe

I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.

— Stan Wawrinka

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a…

— Matthew Henry

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese…

— Todd Akin

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

— Judi Dench

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

— Claire Tomalin

“When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.”

— Susan Meissner

Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.

— Kristy Hinze

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

— Joseph Alleine

If you're uncertain and a [Donald] Trump skeptic, you think you know what, this administration is going to be better than I…

— Jason Chaffetz

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to…

— Ozzy Osbourne

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says,…

— Katha Pollitt

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

— John Tukey

I am not an insecure person at heart, but I am also aware that I am not as good looking as an…

— Parineeti Chopra