Expected Quotes
1453 quotes by 1199 authors
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I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy
— Dyan Cannon
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I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's…
— Tracey Ullman
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It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go…
— Wentworth Miller
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I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me.…
— Adelaide Kane
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EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes…
— Terry Teachout
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In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.
— Taylor Mali
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As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently…
— Arabella Weir
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People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!
— Mark Hamill
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a…
— John Ruskin
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Each moment brings new surprises to the one who has no expectations, who comes with an absolutely open mind. Then incredible things start happening. Even…
— Rajneesh
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It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
— Jonathan Lethem
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
— Ben Okri
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It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to…
— George Washington
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I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Our blight is ideÂoloÂgies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!
— Carl Jung
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There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence…
— Hannah Arendt
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I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured.…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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