They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, "There's something we need to tell you," and from the look on Andrew's face, I think he expected Derek to say he'd gotten me pregnant.
If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.
I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that I made, very early on. I was interested mainly in the entertainment arts. I wasn't as interested in being a fine artists.
It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.
The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.
I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!
The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.
It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!
After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.
It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?
Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U. N. report.
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph. D. ! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.
The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.