“However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.”
Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.”
Referring to the New Zealand Ecological Movement.
Source: Dominion, 30 December 1991, p. 6.
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Source: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 14 (p. 276)
“If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.”
Susan Andersen
(1950) American writer
Source: Baby, Don't Go
“As not expected anything
I had almost everything.”
Como no esperó nada
lo tuvo casi todo.
Regreso [Return] (Vuelta al Sur)
Act III, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.”
Helen Clark
(1950) 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
Quoted in David Barber, Helen Clark, new chief of UN Development Programme," https://archive.is/20131125142737/www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1467092.php/PROFILE_Helen_Clark_new_chief_of_UN_Development_Programme_"PROFILE: Asia-Pacific News (26 March 2006)
Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 10 “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?”, p. 126
George Harrison
(1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
Expressing disenchantment with the "Summer of Love" hippies of San Francisco's famous “hippie haven” i.e., the Haight-Ashbury district, which he visited on August 7, 1967.
Quoted in Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison, Geoffrey Giuliano, Da Capo Press, , p. 80. http://books.google.com/books?id=0PLygywwfL8C&pg=PA80&dq=%22hideous,+spotty+little+teenagers%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2Z6NT6-RM6Wr2AW8maGMDA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22hideous%2C%20spotty%20little%20teenagers%22&f=false
Context: I'd thought it would be something like King's Road [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers.