Expected Quotes

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

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 did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.

I have always... expected a lot from myself.

As many as three million people are expected to attend the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. The security concerns and economic opportunities are great for both Canada and Washington state.

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

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.

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

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.