Expected Quotes
1453 quotes by 1199 authors
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Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.
— Tariq Anwar
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I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a…
— Hannah Kent
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Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.
— Michael Specter
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I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
— Noam Chomsky
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The beauty of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted who works harder than usual can rise; the burden of a free society…
— Ben Shapiro
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Sometimes, and I hate to say it, you do feel things are asked for in the most ludicrously unrealistic fashion. The time you are expected…
— Darren Boyd
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I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.
— Brad Schneider
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International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood…
— Hassan Rouhani
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People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
— Kapil Dev
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Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better…
— Virginia Postrel
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Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the…
— John Eisenhower
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Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance,…
— Stephen Kinzer
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected…
— J. G. Ballard
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The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
— Seamus Heaney
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Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great…
— Sarah Lacy
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In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.
— Christina Hendricks
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Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the…
— Tina Brown
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I never really expected to be controversial.
— B.F. Skinner
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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to…
— Joanna Lumley
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