Expected Quotes · Page 6

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

— Rex Stout

I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved…

— Steve Young

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

— Mary Robinson

The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high…

— Erick Erickson

A lot of producers always say "what direction are you going in?" and I don't know. I'm just doing music. Right now…

— Ginuwine

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

— Jimmy Carter

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

— Lord Chesterfield

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

— Joey Lauren Adams

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I…

— Ayn Rand

What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and…

— Alexey Leonov

It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you…

— Gary Payton

I never expected to be in a movie.

— Juancho Hernangomez

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would…

— Kenneth Lay

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

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different…

— Geraldine Jewsbury

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

— Mitt Romney

I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for…

— Bashar al-Assad

As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered…

— Emile Chartier

I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected…

— Lorin Stein

I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get…

— Anna Quindlen

I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second…

— Sarah Dessen

I am not bound by material things. It's being successful that drives me forward. I love success. I don't wake up in…

— Kevin Pietersen

Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and…

— Martin Samuel

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

— Shannon Hale

I had expected to be playing in the reserves and, all going well, that I might get a chance in the first…

— Robbie Keane