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• We have too often been expected to speak
  all things to all people and speak everyone else's position
  but our own.

  Audre Lorde

  People, Speak, Position

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• Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Prayer, Track

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• I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

  Helen Keller

  Views, Punishment, Overcoming

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• Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life.

  Werner Herzog

  Children, Moving, Growing

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• And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

  Audre Lorde

  Responsibility, Safe, Settling

  Audre Lorde (1978). “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power”, Crossing Press

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• I just think the American people had expected that the president of the United States would be able to describe what he's going to do in the next four years. But he can't. He can't even explain what he's done in the last four years.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Romney Reviews Debate Issues During Virginia Stops". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. October 18, 2012.

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• Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Years, Voice, Abuse

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Vision, Safe, Vistas

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “The Quest for Character: Inspirational Thoughts for Becoming More Like Christ”, p.95, Harper Collins

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• Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

  C. S. Lewis

  Given, Philanthropy Giving

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moments, That Moment, Rejects

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals

  Swami Vivekananda

  Kings, Hands, Years

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• The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing that she believed in, that was so important that she would do it regardless of the player. And I think that a lot of players expected that she would bend herself to do whatever they wanted because they've done the romance, gotten her approval up, and of course she would just sort of follow their destiny. But Morrigan has her own destiny.

  David Gaider

  Player, Destiny, Thinking

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• Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry Blair. What I hadn't expected was for the backstory to make so much sense. Usually science is the first causality of superhero stories, tossed aside with the breezy rationalization: 'Hey, it's comics!' Only Superhuman is, to my knowledge, the first hard science superhero story. And the Story is the better for it.

  Mike W. Barr

  Writing, Knowing, Superhero

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• It was reported today that Michelle Obama wants her mother to move into the White House with them. Yes. This is expected to be the first time Barack uses his veto power.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mother, Moving, White

  "American Morning" with John Roberts, www.cnn.com. November 12, 2008.

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• My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected

  Sally Hawkins

  Knees, Lasts

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

  Judi Dench

  Want, Great Things

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

  Judi Dench

  Difficulty, Esteem

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• I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

  Clay Aiken

  Broadway, Made

  "Clay Aiken Remains Steadfast On His New CD". Interview with Brian Scott Lipton, www.theatermania.com. March 27, 2012.

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• My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Parent, Lessons

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• I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

  Brigitte Bardot

  People

  "Brigitte Bardot: celebrity crushed me" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.

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• As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.

  Mark McKinnon

  Republican, Clinton

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• I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2012). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Friendship, Men, Perfect

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, 5:181, 1932.

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• A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.

  Bill Walsh

  Writing, Editing, Differences

  Bill Walsh (2004). “The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English”, p.11, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

  Henry James

  Memorable, Simple, Eggs

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.11484, Delphi Classics

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