Expected Quotes

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Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children. — Jessica Valenti
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. — Gabrielle
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing… — John Kenneth Galbraith
All through the ages prophets have looked down through the corridors of time to our day. Billions of the deceased and those yet to be… — Ezra Taft Benson
The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just… — Alice Steinbach
You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when… — Gustave Flaubert
I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally — Nicolas Chamfort
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to… — Henry Ward Beecher
I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had. — Tim Ward
I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it.… — Ronnie Van Zant
Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good? — John F. Kennedy
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either… — Oscar Wilde
Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the… — Charles Dickens
A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but heâ€™s what you need. — Timothy Keller
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers'… — Peggy Orenstein
The rich man is everywhere expected and at home. — Saadi

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