Quotes with expected

  • No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, “This is what is expected of you. But… I’m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role… I love being with people.”
  • Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
  • 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?'
  • 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.
  • Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
  • The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
  • Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
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  • Og Mandino Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Ben Johnston Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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  • Bernard Goldberg A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • E. B. White A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Margaret Deland A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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  • Charles Dickens Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Charles M. Schwab All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • A. P. Herbert An act of God was defined as ''something which no reasonable man could have expected.''
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Barbara Demick By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Og Mandino Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Johnson Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Louis de Bernieres Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 74
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Frederick Hudson Ecker Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
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  • Arthur Capper Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Cao Yu For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
    Cao Yu
     
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  • A. Lou Vickery Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
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  • Thomas Fuller Good is not good, when better is expected.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Bertrand Russell Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Margaret Drabble How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
    The Middle Ground (2013) 41
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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