I Expected Quotes

128 quotes by 118 authors

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected. — Henry James
So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected. — Charlize Theron
I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what… — Brian Ferneyhough
I expected to go into journalism or law. — Christie Hefner
It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I… — Nadia Comaneci
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely… — Bayard Taylor
I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with… — Ellie Goulding
I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else. — Catherine Deneuve
I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected. — Mariska Hargitay
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. — Samuel Johnson
You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would… — Guy Kawasaki
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. — Charles Lindbergh
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. — Loretta Lynn
The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did. — Wynton Marsalis
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber… — Huey Newton
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations. — Paula Radcliffe
If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. — Wallace Shawn
I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself. — Eliot Spitzer
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. — Amy Tan

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