#expected

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. ↗

— Amy Tan

#failure #fear #i

The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#did #expected #head #i #me

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#cruel #expected #gentleness #i #learned

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#some #some things #them #things #unexpected

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#add #beginning #chorus #come #comparatively

The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us. ↗

— Juliette Fay

#observations-on-life #unexpected-humor #unexpected-life #wry #age