What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.
Rene Locher
I expected the pavilion to look more modern and exciting.
Brian Gibson
Christian was nervous, as is to be expected.
Herschel Sandler
It's about time I produced and played. I did what I'm expected to do.
Marcus Slaughter
It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.
Jeff Wright
He is much better than Rob and I would have expected considering how sick he was.
Laman Gray
It's become much more controversial than I would have expected. I was surprised by the vehemence.
Sidney Verba
I didn't really expect much so I guess I got more than I expected. It means I have more potential that I thought I did.
Anthony Baccam
I think we did better than anyone expected.
Natalie Land
I was quite pleased with how we did. We did better than I expected in relation to Harvard.
John Beski
We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
Amanda Hoffman
We're not anticipating problems, other than that we're getting them later than we expected.
Kathy Miller
They still expected manufacturing activity to expand, but not as much as it has in New York.
Richard Dietz
The community has been very supportive. It's much more than what I expected.
Kristi Schulmeister
There is strong commodity demand still emerging from Asia, which is expected to grow further as most of the demand is emanating from developing economies.
Bharat Sheth
Both companies may be expected to produce analyses that strengthen their own positions.
James Greenwood
The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more.
Wendy Wong
I expected us to play well, but I don't think they were themselves.
Laura Baranek
This contract is the result of dedicated work and the results are better than we expected.
Maria Papet
Everyone is expected to do everything. There's not an emphasis on one or two guys doing all the scoring, it's more of a balanced attack.
Adrian Tigert
We expected some trouble at that match. That was the one (match) I was most pleased about.
Lin Loring
I could have expected a life bit for every one of them.
Larry Fisher
I expected him to do the things he?s doing. I think he?s having a great year.
Mike Bocock
Guidance for the April quarter was appreciably better than expected.
Gurinder Kalra
I give them credit, they're a very scrappy team. But it was a little easier than I expected.
Allyson Doyle
Who could have expected it? How could we have expected he would go so far so early?
Patrick Mouratoglou
We've been to a lot of places we never expected to go.
John Skehan
We were by far the youngest team competing. But we expected to do well, no matter how young we are.
Garrett Turner
We have always expected our opponents to raise more money than us, so it's no surprise that they did.
Scott Arceneaux
It ended up being more of a challenge than I expected it to be. I think it's good, because I wouldn't, on my own, do that.
Doug Dacar
It was kind of what I expected, just little things we didn't do. We were trying to do the right things, but we just didn't connect on them.
Shawn Stenger
We felt confident and expected to win.
Justin Fry
In general, the passage of the budget is expected to go smoothly, given it contains little that is new or controversial.
Damian Fraser
They hit a couple of 3s, and it got them all excited. They made their run, which was expected.
Gordon Klaiber
The actual data of 2005 shows emissions were lower than expected. This is good news for the environment.
Barbara Helfferich
If this happens, it will greatly increase our expected targets.
Ailton Nascimento
Forecasts were too high because the government spent less than expected.
Tetsuya Miura
Judges are expected to live to a different standard.
Colin Winchester
The launch is going as well as we had expected.
Brian Clark
He's had a phenomenal year. It's what we expected from him. Studying him before the draft, he's everything we thought he was.
Ron Middleton
I'm not emotional. I expected this. I'm comfortable now.
Xavier Perkins
He was exceptional. He's got great reflexes and he's a smart goaltender. He was all that we expected him to be.
Laurence Gilman
Today, I expected it to go down like it did. There were no real surprises at all.
Giri Raichur
It was certainly better than I expected. You always come into these things with a pessimistic attitude.
David Howell
I never expected to go this far.
Doug Miller
A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
This is not the type of start we expected and it is certainly not what we had in mind.
Heron Grey
We're not totally closing the book on the storm yet. There's one more piece of energy coming around and that's expected to come in tomorrow.
Mark Deutschendorf
It was kind of expected, but we were hoping for better results.
Miguel Rueda
This has gone all smoother than we ever could have expected, and we owe that to Ignacio.
Brian Mitchell
The family is holding up as well as can be expected.
Chris Lang
That's the way the games at Wildwood Catholic go. We expected that. It's a small gym.
Van Cathcart
Certainly it's odd to see a dividend that's more than expected earnings per share.
Patrick Comack
They were more than double what I expected. It's exciting science, but sobering.
Gregory Asner
We've been here a couple days, and never expected to see anything like this.
David Cooper
It now appears that the company was able to cut less than we had expected.
Richard Weinhart
The plan is essentially as expected, meaning not terribly aggressive.
Rob Hinchliffe
Results were just as strong as we expected.
Takashi Oya
It's coming in wetter and windier than expected.
Arthur Hinojosa
Further suicide bombings in the UK must be expected, and the targets are unpredictable.
Lord Carlile
The numbers weren't too dissimilar to what the market expected.
Richard Long
It's expected, almost, that there are going to be changes and form changes.
Chris Leigh
It was just like putting it in the bank, that's what it felt like to me. That's what I expected to do.
Terrence Andrews
Platinum has been much more resilient than we expected.
John Reade
We expected to have five in the finals and five champs.
Brian Smiley
The water headed right where we expected it would, and where the bypass is to go.
Barry Martin
Until a couple of years ago, if you were in a wheelchair, you weren't expected to work.
Robert Stephens
They had high expectations, which they should, and it gets tough. We didn't have anything to lose. They were expected to win.
Dan Carlson
This is what has led to our monthly subscriber net adds...which are more than what we had expected at this point of time.
Bill Morrow
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Denis Diderot
Not many people expected this match, ... But it will be difficult anyway. We have our destiny in our own hands.
Jacques Santini
We would like to [win]. I don't know if we expected to, especially the way things have gone lately.
Chad Slyter
We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.
Stuart Rose
Consumers have hung in there and done better than people expected, It's really going to be more about businesses.
Conrad Dequadros
(Getting back to State) was a major goal and we definitely expected to be back down there again.
Talia Miller
The numbers are a little better than we expected.
Peter Kretzmer
We expected to be competitive. We just didn't know how early we'd be able to mix it up with these guys up at the top.
Barry Mizzell
That's not too bad, actually. It's about what we expected.
Ralph Henning
We're totally overjoyed. It's absolutely unbelievable. We never expected this would happen.
Tomoya Satozaki
We had expected earnings to be a positive trigger this year and this is taking place.
Rolf Elgeti
When you are in, you are in, it doesn't matter. It took a little while longer than expected, but we are in.
Brad Richards
This downtrend in technology stocks is looking more serious than we had expected.
Shinichi Ichikawa
She is expected to be here next Friday.
Joy Watson
The market would have expected a placement at a bigger discount.
Herbert Lau
I get to see him everyday in practice, and this is well-deserved. If you look back, not a lot of people expected that of him, but he never gave up.
Mike Pratt
It was a lot different than I expected.
Silas Davidson
We expected to have 250 samples. Now, we have 15,000 pieces to work with.
Don Burnett
You always get bad calls out there. That's expected. You saw how many mistakes I made. You don't think they made any?
Vince Spadea
He was a hard worker and expected us to do the same.
Gene Parker
I must say that chimp fossils were about the last thing I would have expected to find there.
Sally Mcbrearty
The results were in line with expectations .... As expected too, production was down in the quarter.
Thierry Desmarest
It has a lot more to it than I would have expected. It has a lot of twists in it.
Kelsey Clark
It's coming in wetter and windier than expected over Northern California.
Arthur Hinojosa
We're disappointed. We expected to win.
Pete Vasil
It's what I expected after such an uncertain result.
Paolo Pizzoli
We knew 2003 was going to be a challenge, but it appears it's going to be more of a challenge than we expected.
Robert Hazlett
It has been an exciting, sometimes bumpy ride since we accelerated our plans and became involved in F1 a year earlier than expected.
Colin Kolles
We played hard. We expected to do better at state, but we played hard.
Tyler Gaston
This is the kind of reaction everyone expected yesterday.
John Caldwell
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.
Budd Schulberg
There's no quit in that team. I didn't expect it to get to 53-52, but I expected them to come back.
Paul Booth
The response was excellent. We expected no more than 30,000. People are tired of being afraid.
Luis Ibarra
Output was slightly weaker than expected, but I wouldn't worry too much.
Seiji Adachi
In a way we are not surprised, since we had expected a possible expansion of the disease through wildlife.
Joseph Domenech
It's going better than I expected.
Anne Smith
It was nice to get a team win. It was fun. Most of the matches went the way I expected them to.
Trent Rollins
To be part of a team that's expected to win and come out and get the win on opening day is big.
Matt Murton
Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
Frederick Hudson Ecker
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino
People really relate to it. The response has been better than we expected.
Claire Huang
It is expected to start trading today.
Christine Hudacko
I never expected or believed I could commit this horrible crime. I can only hope that I can be an example to others.
Joseph P. Smith
Certainly, as expected, there were no real surprises here.
Frank Morgan
People give up if the item is not found where it's expected to be.
Jakob Nielsen
I expected it. We were in the Commonwealth District last year and I knew the teams here were competitive.
Devin Cornwall
I expected Marist's best shot and I think we got it.
Bobby Gonzalez
It was certainly better than I expected.
David Howell
That (smaller market share) was expected. What wasn't expected is that the overall market is smaller than anticipated.
Thomas Gunderson
There was a 16-year-old arrested which was really unfortunate, but it was not what we expected for a holiday weekend.
Capt. Allan Elkins
Are expected to be well supported into the winter.
Lord Browne
It's to be expected. They don't have a case. It's all about delay.
Chris Fitz
We have not shown the improvement I expected.
Dick Bennett
It took a little longer than expected to find ourselves.
Chameka Scott
Messy, given the significant charges IBM is expected to take.
Sanford Bernstein
I wouldn't have expected this in a million years.
Anthony Weaver
We haven't been outside practicing since March 8 or 10. I expected there to be a few bugs.
Denny Lorsung
This was not something that was expected. We never imagined we'd be working with this population.
Karen Knight
The response to this promotion has been beyond what we had expected.
Rick Schlesinger
She wasn't expected to live the first week.
Douglas Anderson
They know what's expected of them. If they want to be good they should have the same expectations of them as I do.
Rachel Millette
We had to make adjustments. We had some kids who maybe expected to come off the bench starting and contributing a lot more.
Vern Benson
They are also reasonable value, and earnings momentum is holding up better than expected.
Tony Dolphin
That the claims data were back at 356,000 was certainly better than expected and the dollar is gaining.
Lisa Finstrom
The numbers came in pretty much as expected.
Wendy Abramowitz
The results were fantastic? they weren't expected to be so high.
Alan Hawthorne
Demand has been strong, generally stronger than what we had expected back in January.
Ron Slaymaker
My fear was that people expected radical change because of the new contract. But no.
Christian Lacroix
Unless it's really, really outside of what is expected, the Fed probably won't move at all between now and the end of the year.
Shawn Johnson
She was pretty and you never expected a pretty woman to be that funny. She didn't care that she was pretty.
Carl Reiner
You have the kids' trust and they know what is expected of them.
Colleen Hooper
There was an indication that the cabin may have been pressurizing at a slower rate than expected.
Amanda Tobin
The dollar is rallying as foreigners snapped up a larger-than-expected amount of U.S. assets.
Kathy Lien
Although homelessness can happen to anyone, it just wasn't expected.
Linda Lewis
I was pleased with the way we ran. I never expected us to have the top five finishers.
Bruce Calhoun
The winds picked up sooner than expected. Blame the meteorologists.
Richard Binzel
Investors expected more than in-line results.
Adrianne Shapira
Good is not good when better is expected.
Vin Scully
I never expected to receive it again. It's an honor.
Lucy Pizarro
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. Philip Randolph
There was no pressure on me. I was 9-10 (during the season). Who expected me to beat the Yankees twice?
Johnny Podres
The rise is in line with what the market had expected.
Frank Schallenberger
I've lost about six to seven pounds. It's a lot less than I expected to lose.
Stuart Rasch
We expected Nazareth to battle us like everyone else in this conference, and they did. We took their shot, though, and didn't back down.
Mike Ortiz
I never expected it, and I wasn't looking for it. But we're awfully, awfully fortunate.
Gerry Moore
There seems to be a consensus that there will be plenty to meet the expected demand.
Donna Brown
Light ash can be expected, nothing that would accumulate in any thickness.
Michelle Coombs
It was much better than I expected. We're just considering this as an extension for what he should have done before.
Marla Miller
We pounded the ball up the middle (against Jay) which was nothing we expected to be able to do.
Joel Stoneton
I've learned a lot, especially in my two college classes we have. Both are fun classes. Everything is more than I've expected.
Amanda Johnson
He never expected that we would be so nice with them. He never expected such nice people to meet him.
Sonya Sarner
We never expected to get this far. It starts with our unselfishness.
Julie Adams
It was pretty much expected.
Jack Cheevers
Nick has been what I expected. He's the ultimate competitor. He's pitching very well and has command of all of his pitches.
Jeremiah Robbins
We all expected they would appeal. They just continue to drag things along, which is, unfortunately, one of the difficulties against legal action against a government entity.
Maryanne Ingemanson
It's been everything I expected.
Ryan Suter
We expected to win tonight. It's going to be a tough one tomorrow, and the day after that.
Marlon Byrd
When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.
Anthony Chukumba
We had the match set up to win and our experienced kids didn't come through as expected.
Brendan King
They all did better than I expected. Everybody dropped their times - the whole team.
Janet Bright
The operating earnings were disappointing. Everyone (in the industry) is faced with much higher costs than expected.
William Leach
They shocked us, we never expected them to throw this much. We anticipated them running the ball. We just did the best we could.
David Glass
This was expected. We were hoping it would come. Now it becomes a court battle.
Hilly Kristal
We expected Ferndale to play tough and they did. We're glad to have escaped with a win.
Brian Roper
The whole team will be expected to contribute.
Glen Millican
We cannot be expected to have an open door policy. This is a sovereign country with sovereign rights, concerns and decisions.
Nasser Judeh
Fusion is not expected to be done until 2008, and then customers will evaluate the software through 2010. They're taking a wait-and-see approach.
Bruce Richardson
The storm had not hit yet, but we had expected to come back after it went through.
Warren Williams
It's not something I expected from AOL, but it's the right direction at the right time.
Joe Wilcox
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