#expect

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

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I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me. ↗

— Judi Dench

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The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. ↗

— Judi Dench

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A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

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It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done. ↗

— LeVar Burton

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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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