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

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

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh

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

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

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

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

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.
Karen Duffy

I never expected that this would be my life.
Kristen Stewart

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
O. Winston Link

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.
David Chalmers

I never expected to be anybody important.
Elvis Presley

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?'
Buck Owens

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

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
Catherine Deneuve

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.
Juliana Hatfield

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.
Dyan Cannon

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.
Marguerite Gardiner

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
Augusten Burroughs

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