Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
Joseph Sobran

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
James F. Byrnes

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
Wynton Marsalis

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
Ryan Reynolds

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.
Duncan Sheik

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
Lorna Luft

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
Amy Tan

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
Nancy Kerrigan

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

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.
Kim Novak

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
John Philip Sousa

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

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
John Tukey

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

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

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
Charles de Lint

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
Elmer Davis

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman Ralph Augustine

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

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