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I never expected to be anybody important. -- Elvis Presley
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. -- Leo Buscaglia
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. -- Steve Jobs
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly. -- Maya Angelou
The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One -- Kathleen McGowan
Always deliver more than expected. -- Larry Page
Good is not good when better is expected. -- Vin Scully
Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. -- Robert Smithson
You know, I never expected to enter the movie business. -- Christopher Atkins
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. -- Kenzo Tange
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. -- Beverly Sills
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. -- Og Mandino
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. -- Brad Schneider
Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected. -- Christina Milian
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. -- Will Rogers
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought. -- Margaret Chase Smith
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. -- Errol Flynn
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. -- Neil Armstrong
Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? -- Jacques Derrida
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. -- Charles Lindbergh
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. -- Leo Rosten
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true. -- Elbert Hubbard
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it. -- Margaret Deland
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. -- Harper Lee
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. -- Mark Twain
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
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
I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses. -- Maurice Gibb
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. -- Oscar Wilde
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. -- Jim Bunning
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. -- Carroll Quigley
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. -- Ivan Pavlov
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. -- Lee Iacocca
Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path. -- Anne Perry
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is. -- Erma Bombeck
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. -- Rudolf Arnheim
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. -- Evan Bayh
It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me. -- Bo Derek
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. -- Audrey Hepburn
Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process. -- Jane Green
A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism. -- Raquel Cassidy
I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives. -- Jonathan Cain
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. -- Abraham Lincoln
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. -- Tom Wolfe
We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States. -- Dick Cheney
Be kinder than expected. -- Robin Sharma
The expected always happens -- Benjamin Disraeli
Give something that wasn't expected. -- John Madden
Misfortunes should always be expected. -- Samuel Johnson
Health is my expected heaven. -- John Keats
I'm higher than I expected. -- Veronik Mallet
I'm feeling better than expected. -- Jan Ullrich
Always give more than what's expected. -- Donald Trump
Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow. -- Dante Alighieri
Happiness often comes when least expected. -- FranÃ§ois Lelord
Evil was predictable, always painfully expected. -- Ted Dekker
I never really expected to be controversial. -- B. F. Skinner
Men were never expected to be monogamous. -- Dan Savage
Things never come when they are expected. -- Agatha Christie
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. -- Amy Tan
No one expected me. Everything awaited me. -- Patti Smith
Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners. -- Joe Gibbs
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected? -- Bob Dylan
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold. -- George Herbert
I have always... expected a lot from myself. -- Scarlett Johansson
Had he expected me to hump her leg? -- Ilona Andrews
Good is not good, where better is expected -- Thomas Fuller
A gift much expected is paid, not given. -- George Herbert
I expected to go into journalism or law. -- Christie Hefner
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. -- Gabrielle Union
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? -- Alexander McCall Smith
The future was getting here faster than I'd expected. -- Maggie Stiefvater
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. -- Gabrielle Union
Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected. -- Joel Spolsky
The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always. -- John Maynard Keynes
[The damage in New York was] greater than expected. -- Osama bin Laden
I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie. -- Hal Hartley
Good is not good enough when better is expected -- Lou Lamoriello
Experiment is the expected failure to deliberately learn something. -- Scott Berkun
To those who are given much, much is expected. -- Maya Angelou
death, however long expected, is sudden at the last ... -- Mary Jane Holmes
Life is not what you expected it to be. -- Lauren Bacall
I never expected that this would be my life. -- Kristen Stewart
I never expected anything to be given to me. -- Taylor Swift
My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected -- Sally Hawkins
To those whom much is given, much is expected. -- John F. Kennedy
Film-making was not at all what I had expected. -- Brigitte Bardot
In a long work sleep may be naturally expected. -- Horace
Greens are not expected to be anything but nice. -- David Lange
The rich man is everywhere expected and at home. -- Saadi
I expected more from literature than from real, naked life. -- Gunter Grass
No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise. -- Robin Morgan
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them. -- Bertolt Brecht
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected. -- Alice James
Good theater is not what is expected, but what surprises. -- Mae West
Discipline and consistency is what's expected out of a player. -- Satnam Singh Bhamara
Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me. -- Jeff Cunningham
Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to. -- Ann Brashares
I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
She was heavier than he expected - women always are. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
The soreness I have is expected. I have total movement. -- Roger Clemens
Do more than expected, promise less than you can keep. -- Debasish Mridha
Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered. -- Edgar Cayce
How can I give more than is expected of me? -- David J. Schwartz
Much is expected from those to whom much is given. -- C. S. Lewis
To those who much has been given, much is expected. -- Don Meyer
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens -- Benjamin Disraeli
People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected. -- Paulo Coelho
Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity. -- Tariq Anwar
Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious -- Declan Donnellan
I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything. -- Victoria Beckham
I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege. -- Bob Ainsworth
Lukewarm people call 'radical' what Jesus expected of all His followers. -- Francis Chan
I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected. -- Mason Cooley
Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. -- John Tukey

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