Expected Quotes

1453 quotes by 1199 authors

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking… — Thomas Sowell
Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on… — Rob Sheffield
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I… — Vladimir Nabokov
No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one.… — Jeannette Walls
To those whom much is given, much is expected. — John F. Kennedy
We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then… — Douglas Coupland
No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people… — Cormac McCarthy
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and… — Michel Foucault
A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them. — Jane Austen
When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside… — Jodi Picoult
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I… — W. Somerset Maugham
I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses,… — Jane Wagner
The expected always happens — Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the… — Marianne Williamson
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance… — J. G. Ballard
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,… — Ben Okri
The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has… — George Washington
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with… — Sherman Alexie
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and… — Jodi Picoult

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