#expected

She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of convention. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#unexpected

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. ↗

— Kate Adie

#become #church #england #expected #i

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cake #chicago #chocolate #chocolate cake #dessert

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#certain #doing #easy #expected #get

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#days #everybody #expected #man #mark

One cannot plan for the unexpected. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#plan #unexpected

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me. ↗

— Jo Durie

#been #big #big break #break #break up

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#country #different #each #even #expected

A brick and a blanket need a logo, and I’m just the designer to hire to sit around idly as I ideally charge you by the hour.
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— Jarod Kintz

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

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected. ↗

— Jeff Garcia

#conscientious #especially #expected #how #i