“I never expected it to happen, and it had nothing to do with why I supported [Hillary] Trump, the fact that he was going to [prosecute Hillary Clinton]. If he did it, it was gonna be icing on the cake for me, but I never expected him to do it.” IfsFactsHappensTrumpClintonExpectedCakeIcingIcing On The Cake Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Marla [from Rules Don't Apply] especially, believed that she has a certain set of rules that she had to abide by, in order to be successful in Hollywood. How she acted, how she approached things and even in her relationship with her mother - there were a lot more rules and regulations expected of ambitious women, even before they got into the door.” MotherCertainOrderSuccessfulDoorsHollywoodExpectedBeing SuccessfulAmbitiousRegulationRules And RegulationsAmbitious Women Author:Lily Collins
“I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters - the forts and the high emplacements. I had expected them to have been preserved in some way.” WayHas BeensTreePositionLettersExpectedMemoirReverenceGrandfatherLocationMy GrandfatherThornsForts Author:Chris Cleave
“I think that magazines like Vanity Fair are still operating under the old rules, and that if you come to work for a magazine like Vanity Fair, even today, you're certainly expected to treat people like Peggy Siegal very deferentially.” PeopleIfsThinkingStillsTodayFairsTreatsExpectedMagazinesVanityVanity Fair Author:Toby Young
“As an American, no one expected Donald Trump to ever be a serious candidate for President. I don't think he even expected to be a serious candidate. He wanted the free media he would get.” ThinkingWantedPresidentMediaSeriousTrumpExpectedCandidates Author:Moby
“So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.” YearsSeemsEarthAmountDegreesYears AgoTwentiesExpectedEnormous Author:Bill McKibben
“I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected this administration to be different from Bush's administration. They are adopting the same doctrine with different accessories.” DifferentPresidentBehaviorExpectedDoctrineAdministrationBarackOfficialsDisappointedPresident Barack ObamaAccessoriesAdopting Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody expected 11th of September. So, you cannot expect. It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. It's an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. You have to expect everything.” WaySaidHappensDifficultAreasTerrorismExpectedSeptemberMistakenExplosionsRepercussionsDealing With It Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.” ForceDifficultBehindsStruggleDemocraticExpectedZimbabwe Author:Robert Mugabe
“There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest. A few months later came the expected military coup - a very vicious military junta took over, of which the United States was passively supportive. Not openly, of course, but Haitians started to flee from the terror and were sent back and on towards Guantanamo Bay. Of course, that is against International Law. But the United States pretended that they were "economic refugees."” StatesLawCoursesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesEconomicMilitaryMonthsElectionInternationalTerrorExpectedPriestsRefugeeSupportiveViciousHaitiInternational LawPopulistCoupsGuantanamoGuantanamo Bay Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think very highly of Expo and all is going well. We've seen big problems with [corruption] scandals [at local government level], but it is going forward, with the highest number of participants ever expected.” ThinkingWellsProblemBigsGovernmentLevelsNumbersHighestCorruptionExpectedLocalsScandalParticipantsBig ProblemsLocal Government Author:Franca Sozzani
“[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some day. But he committed suicide when he was in his 50s. If he were gay in the 1950s, then the rest of what I wrote was commentary because life was so miserable for gay men back then. And that's why he committed suicide.” IfsMenRememberPresidentCuttingTeamGaySuicideCommittedExpectedMagazinesMiserableCaliforniaCoveredSwimmingScholarCrewCommentaryGay MenSwim Team Author:Kevin Sessums
“The US empowered the Shi'a Islamic political groups and marginalised a big part of Iraq who were recognised as Sunni people. It was only to be expected that the next step would be for the sectarian religious dynamics to surface, for one religious group to be fighting another religious group.” PeopleBigsWould BePoliticalFightingNextReligiousStepsGroupsIraqSurfaceExpectedIslamicEmpoweredNext StepsDynamicsPolitical Groups Author:Yanar Mohammed
“What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought and sold. This was something nobody expected to see in Iraq.” DoneCitiesDirectIraqExpectedHumiliationIsisEnslavementConcubines Author:Yanar Mohammed
“The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.” PeopleTwoGuyJokesExpectedAssAndrewTwo Guys Author:George Michael
“A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.” KnowsTryingMeanWholeHelpingGovernmentPoorSpeechAreasExpectedI've LearnedRoutineFree SpeechHelp The Poor Author:Nat Hentoff
“It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.” HumansHuman NatureExpected Author:Frank B. Kellogg
“In "solid modernity" difference was tolerated as a temporary irritant only, expected to disappear tomorrow, when "those aliens" will become like us. "Living with strangers" was therefore not something to last and did not call for developing appropriate arts and skills. Now, however, it looks like that diasporic context of our living will not go away - it will be there forever, so learning how to live with strangers day in, day out without abandoning my own strangeness is high on the agenda.” LooksArtLastsDifferencesMy OwnForeverTomorrowSkillsStrangerDisappearExpectedAliensDevelopingAppropriateAgendasGoing AwayTemporaryModernityStrangenessIrritants Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“If you're uncertain and a [Donald] Trump skeptic, you think you know what, this administration is going to be better than I expected.” IfsThinkingKnowsTrumpExpectedAdministrationUncertainSkepticYou Think You Know Author:Jason Chaffetz
“My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.” WayFirstsChildrenFactsStoriesTurnsFatherBoysExpectedGood Story Author:Anna Quindlen
“I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.” StillsFeelingsNormalExpectedFeel BetterSchedulesMaintaining Author:Jimmy Carter
“Sixty-eight percent of the pregnancies in the United States are neither prepared for nor expected. Of those sixty-eight percent, quite a bit end in abortion, but still there are a large number of children that come in this world without being expected.” WorldChildrenStillsEndsStatesBitsUnitedNumbersUnited StatesThis WorldPercentPreparedEightExpectedAbortionPregnancySixtyLarge Numbers Author:Laura Huxley
“I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.” WayHumansMeanHuman BeingsPerfectHalfDarknessExpectedPerpetuating Author:T.I.
“When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I expected it to be... where people lived like Jane Austen.” PeopleStrongBlackEnglandExpectedShockBlack PeopleJaneAusten Author:Buchi Emecheta
“I think every time I said, "I'm working with Nile [Rodgers]," the reaction was, "Oh, great. I love 'Let's Dance.' " I think that's pretty expected. I'm not sure Nile and I went in consciously not to make "Let's Dance." We just wanted to work together again.” ThinkingSaidWantedTogetherExpectedReactionsNot SureWorking TogetherTogether AgainNile Author:David Bowie
“Expect to get more than you expected [from Crash Landing project]. Expect more than a mixtape.” ProjectsExpectedCrashLandingMixtapes Author:Kid Ink
“I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm seeing some children today, they don't push them enough.” NeedsChildrenEnoughTodaySeeingBehaviorExpectationsTablesExpectedMannersTable Manners Author:Temple Grandin
“Discipline and consistency is what's expected out of a player.” PlayerDisciplineExpectedConsistency Author:Satnam Singh Bhamara
“We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be told by a supervisor that the charge on our cable bill can't be removed; we click a crying emoji on Facebook as our last whimper of protest. So rather than end the story ["Ice Age"] with the expected violence and destruction of evil, I wanted to focus on the way the characters end up sabotaging their own community though their attachments to the consumerism of the old world.” WorldWayEndsCharacterStoriesAgeWantedLastsEvilCommunityFocusViolenceMinutesCryBuildingTenOfficeDestructionBillsExpectedIceProtestAttachmentBossConsumerismCablesClicksOld WorldIce AgeShuffleSupervisorsLaid OffDraconianOffice Buildings Author:Alexander Weinstein
“It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.” BookHomeExpectedProducersDustPlatesHome Plate Author:Mordecai Richler
“I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for more than fifty years now, and that's expected. If they want to continue in the same position of the United States creating problems around the world, that's what they have to do: only interfering in the matters of other nations.” IfsWorldWantYearsHas BeensSaidMatterStatesProblemNationsUnitedUnited StatesPositionCreatingExpectedAround The WorldAdministrationFiftyInterferePins Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I went to London Fashion Week for the first time, after I got the job [on The Collection ], and it completely changed the way I perceived it. I thought, "This is a far bigger operation than I ever expected, and it has far more worth than I ever gave it before." It definitely changed my view of the fashion world.” WorldWayFirstsJobsViewsWeekFashionChangedFirst TimeBiggerLondonExpectedOperationsCollectionsFashion WorldFashion Week Author:Tom Riley
“Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.” KnowsTalkingAudienceMajorityAssumingExpectedMinorities Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“It was pretty hard to actually have to say the words with my teammates, my wife and my boys there. I realized it was going to happen before that day [I announce retirement], but to have to announce it and talk about in front of a lot of people was tougher than I expected. I'm glad that feeling has kind of gone away. That sadness hasn't lingered.” PeopleKindHardFeelingsHappensBoysGoneWifeSadnessFrontsMy WifeExpectedI RealizedGladRetirementTeammateMy BoysGone Away Author:Prince Fielder
“I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved to Nashville years later, one night I went to a Harlan Howard Guitar Pull thing, and there was Waylon. He started talking about how much he loved my work and how great I was, and I couldn't even get a word in.” KnowsYearsNightTalkingMovedGuitarExpectedOne NightNashville Author:Steve Young
“Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.” GivingTakenInformationAreasToolsInsightExpectedAidsFantasticVaccinesPipeline Author:Bill Gates
“I think how strict my mother's home could be with my mom and my stepfather, there was a fluidity and freedom in my dad's existence that I enjoyed when I was around him, though the responsibility was just different. He expected me to carry myself a certain way without all the rules and confines.” ThinkingWayDifferentHomeMotherCertainExistenceResponsibilityMomDadMy DadMy MomExpectedEnjoyedStrictFluidityStepfathers Author:Mahershala Ali
“[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.” DifferentFallLevelsPlayerTeamExpectedCoachesShouldersCoaching Author:John Starks
“The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.” PeopleFirstsMeanLongThreeBlackLinesWhiteDealsViolenceVoteElectionSouthExpectedTensionEmployeeBlack And WhiteSouth AfricaEmployersAprilClashQueues Author:Nelson Mandela
“I had to write a comedy set and film a show at the same time. And it's the second time I've been up on stage as a stand-up comedian with untested material. I was saying it out loud for the first time that night. It didn't go how I expected, but in the best possible way.” WayWritingFirstsShowsFilmNightComedyStageMaterialsFirst TimeExpectedComedianLoudStand Up Comedian Author:Zach Anner
“I don't mind at all being approached when I'm 10 or more feet away from the car. If I'm anywhere away from the car, I'm fine. That's completely expected. But when I'm next to the car or within 10 feet of it, I'm thinking about that or working in that direction. And that's just something I'd rather be able to work on than be interrupted, really, by anybody.” IfsThinkingMindAbleNextFeetCarFineExpectedInterrupted Author:Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
“Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.” WantNeedsShouldRunningTodayDifferencesViewsLeaderHappeningsDevilShould HaveExpectedContraryNakedAssociatesDissentEmperorVarianceSensorsDevil's Advocate Author:Warren G. Bennis
“I have purpose. My life has meaning. I am engaged in a profession that I'm passionate about. I have some place to go every day. I'm expected. There's always a task at hand. I have beautiful relationships in my life. I have a beautiful home, I go to meetings. I work with others. I stay busy.” HomeHandsBeautifulPurposeTasksMeetingsBusyPassionateProfessionExpectedEngagedPlaces To GoTask At Hand Author:Mackenzie Phillips
“Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.” IfsKindHappensWould BeChristianDiesExpectedBelieverGatesBe KindLifelongWhatever HappensReally WeirdPearly Gates Author:George Saunders
“I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don't work - they cease to matter.” WorldWayWritingMatterWantedPastEventsExpectedCeaseMemoirThis LifeOur WorldOur PastLenses Author:Joshua Mohr
“What are people released from prison expected to do? How are they expected to survive? Can't get a job, locked out of housing, and even food stamps may be off limits. Well, apparently what we expect them to do is to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars in fees, fines, court costs, and back child support (which continues to accrue while you are in prison).” PeopleWellsMayChildrenJobsPaySupportFineCostLimitsCourtDollarsPrisonExpectedLockedStampsHousingFeesFood Stamps Author:Michelle Alexander
“In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees, fines, and costs may be a condition of your probation or parole. To make matters worse, if you're one of the lucky few who actually manages to get a job following release from prison, up to 100% of your wages can be garnished to pay back all those fees, fines and court costs. One hundred percent.” IfsMayMatterStatesJobsNumbersPayGrowingConditionsFineCostLuckyPercentHundredCourtPrisonFollowingExpectedManageReleaseWagesFeesImprisonmentParoleProbation Author:Michelle Alexander
“Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be likeable and pliant. We are also trained to expect any success we attain to come to us through men - by pleasing men, as good employees, good partners.” MenShowsStudySeekingExpectedPartnersEmployeeBiasLikeable Author:Catherine Mayer
“This new world of personal media - the Web, the Internet and et cetera - not only delivers the world to your living rooms, but everywhere. And we get to answer back. And we're expected to answer back.” WorldAnswersRoomsMediaInternetExpectedNew WorldLiving Room Author:Paul Saffo