Expected Quotes

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

With the phase-contrast method still in the first somewhat primitive stage, I went in 1932 to the Zeiss Works in Jena to demonstrate. It was not received with such enthusiasm as I had expected.

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption – though that redemption doesn’t always occur in expected ways.

I have the mindset of a mid-level guy or a minimum guy. My path here wasn’t expected: my path wasn’t that I was going to the NBA and making $16 million a year. So I identify more with those guys, and I want to be a voice for them. I want to help them elevate their status in the league. That’s my goal.

We expected to have a good time with Clive Anderson ’cause I’ve always liked him, his shows.

It goes without saying that no one at United ever expected any help. We understood that decisions can go against you. We believed we were the better team, and therefore, if the referee got his decisions right, then we would win the vast majority of our games.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late ’40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

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

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

‘Say Her Name’ was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn’t trying to do anything except write a book for Aura – a book that I thought I had to write.

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don’t remember what I expected in my future, except that ‘President of the United States‘ was about halfway up the ladder.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

The first rap that I wrote was about my Maths teacher, and as expected, he didn’t like it, but the students loved it!

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn’t rage. I never expected to be a writer; it’s a different world than I ever expected to be in.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

I knew that the only way to get noticed would be by doing something that was not expected of me. I was sure I wouldn’t get noticed if I continued to play the heroine in films like ‘Chashme Baddoor.’

A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.

I suppose I experienced the personal dilemma that baffles every working woman. What happens when you are expected to be Superwoman, to perform a dozen conflicting tasks at the same time?

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider‘s route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles – a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

It’s now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master‘s degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

When you come from a star family in the South, you’re expected to be really good in dance and fights. It’s really important that you open up as an actor in front of the camera.

If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It’s embedded in me.

Girls from poor families of the ‘untouchable,’ or lower, caste are ‘married‘ to Yellamma as young as four. No longer allowed to marry a mortal, they are expected to bestow their entire lives to the service of the goddess.

I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it’s women who throw their underwear at me when I’m performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it’s good. But what if you don’t fit into what is expected of you?

As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

I’m not even Indian-American: I’m Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a nose pin and talk in an accent like Apu from ‘The Simpsons.’ I was nervous because I wasn’t sure if America was ready for a lead that looked like me.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn’t something that was expected or planned for me to do.

What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves are a new way to study the universe and are expected to have significant impact on astronomy and astrophysics in the years ahead.