Expected Quotes

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

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.

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

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 to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.