Expected Quotes

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.