Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.
On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far
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.
When you treat people with massive respect and kindness, amazing to me how they return your respect and kindness 100X. . . even though you expected zero in return.
So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
Had he expected me to hump her leg?
It's a completely different situation right now because last year it was the time that nobody expected anything from me anything -- I had nothing to lose, basically I was starting from zero. And now I'm back in Top 5. And for me it's a different stage.
It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.
To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.
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.
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.
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.
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.
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 is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.