#expected

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#advances #common #confidently #direction #endeavors

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. ↗

— Paul Valery

#distant #fine #finite number #infinite #infinite number

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible? ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#even #expected #inaccessible #more #philosopher

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

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#exactly #happens #knows #never #scout

Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#been #europe #european #expected #farming

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much. ↗

— Nick Ferguson

#drafted #due #expected #fact #first

I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#anyway #asset #assumed #because #expected

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#expected #may #money #opinion #reasonably

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. ↗

— James Thurber

#happen #man #most #old #old age