Expected Quotes

1453 quotes by 1199 authors

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental,… — Sun Tzu
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. — Saul Bellow
I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only… — Thomas Church
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit… — Bertrand Russell
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold. — Marian Dragulescu
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you… — Augusten Burroughs
Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face. — David Feherty
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people… — Margaret Chase Smith
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. — Elizabeth Janeway
When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of… — W. Somerset Maugham
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably… — Max Beerbohm
However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive. — Oscar Wilde
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect… — Seneca the Younger
And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force… — Janet Morris
If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from… — John O'Donohue
To those who much has been given, much is expected. — Don Meyer

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