Expected Quotes

1453 quotes by 1199 authors

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. — Loretta Young
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them. — Neil Young
Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it.… — Felix Dennis
We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight. — Romola Garai
I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. — Erin Wasson
Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of… — Frances Mayes
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to… — Mark Helprin
For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after… — Chuck Palahniuk
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute.… — Milan Kundera
She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at… — John Irving
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit… — Elwyn Brooks White
They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves. — John Adams
It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all… — Stephen King
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what… — Barbara Kingsolver
After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little… — Tom Perrotta
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid… — Sarah Addison Allen
Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is… — Susanna Clarke
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate… — Paul Fussell
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning… — Viktor E. Frankl
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us:… — D. H. Lawrence

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