Expected Quotes

1453 quotes by 1199 authors

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated… — Haim Ginott
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both. — Lord Chesterfield
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts. — John Philip Sousa
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. — Richard Whately
I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me… — Ronald Reagan
I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white… — Ted Allen
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… — Primo Levi
I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected. — Henry James
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness. — Lawrence Durrell
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner. — Ezra Taft Benson
My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in… — Steven Moffat
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it. — Murray Kempton
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a… — Rudolf Arnheim
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected… — Margaret Mahy
I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of… — Stephenie Meyer
There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same… — Gerald Caiafa
My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill… — Martha Plimpton
There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side… — Rob Portman
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in… — Kathy Reichs
I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks. — Kelly Reilly

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