Expected Quotes
1453 quotes by 1199 authors
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes,…
— John Evelyn
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We just believed in ourselves, and we knew that we had an entire city and maybe an enitre country behind us. What can I say?…
— Drew Brees
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I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word,…
— Michael Kirby
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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form.…
— Alexander Lukashenko
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But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected…
— Tennessee Williams
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When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on…
— Candace Bushnell
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Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater…
— Dick Francis
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It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you…
— Lewis Thomas
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the…
— Ralph Gibson
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Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time…
— Martin Samuel
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The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk…
— John William Strutt
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Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
— Kenzo Tange
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The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of UNCED, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The future is…
— Dixie Lee Ray
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We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to…
— David Suzuki
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There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I…
— Ashfaqulla Khan
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The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve global challenges, including…
— Kishore Mahbubani
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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvation, he…
— J. Frank Dobie
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Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.
— Bruce Lee
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