Expected Quotes

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

Happy, Woman, Human

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs

Used, Quality, Excellence

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia

Strong, Weak, Cruel

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

Time, Cannot, Away

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

Time, Live, Through

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

Life, Time, Special

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

Life, Old, Tell

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard

True, May, Dream

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will Rogers

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino

May, Service, Matter

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human, Destiny, Generation

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus

Truth, Freedom, Fear

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Margaret Chase Smith

Human, Criticism, Courtesy

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal

Person, Find, Natural

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

Work, Sing, Slaves

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
Donald Trump

Women, Apprentice

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

Best, True, Cannot

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Haim Ginott

Impossible, Times, Miracle

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Learned, Speak, President

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

Strong, Learned, Weak

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson

Men, Less, Found

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

Marriage, Men, Real

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

End, Actually, Century

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

Country, Kids, Support

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
J. K. Rowling

Dreams, Wanted, Write

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
J. K. Rowling

Angry, Christian, Face

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
Joe Gibbs

Winners, Losers, Failures

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
Paul Watzlawick

Result, Cause, Event

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!
Jimmy Smits

Work, Business, Job

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.
George Santayana

Hope, Children, Behind

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