#expect

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. ↗

— Douglas Hofstadter

#always #even #expect #into #law

It was just a hobby. I didn't expect it to turn into a business. ↗

— Phil Katz

#expect #hobby #i #into #just

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh! ↗

— Louise Jameson

#certainly #expect #fooled #garden #good

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. ↗

— George Eliot

#experience #motive #experience

A brick could be used as a Sexual Orientation Device. But I don’t need it, because I know my sexual orientation—north!
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight. ↗

— David Kirk

#backpack #carry #else #everyone #expect

Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest. ↗

— Mark Kirk

#amount #born #children #creditors #day

A brick could be used to make the world safer for our children. Well, not our children, as I don't actually have any kids—but certainly your children. Skeptical? A brick could better protect your children than all the Federal government agencies combined.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did. ↗

— Werner Klemperer

#being #cast #did #difficult #expect

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#adult #ago #behave #communication #each