Expect Quotes

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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys… — Fernando Pessoa
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and… — Jane Austen
Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong… — C.S. Lewis
Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed. — Cinda Williams Chima
Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail. — Alfred Lansing
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy… — Doris Lessing
Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen,… — Gennifer Choldenko
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. — Charles Dickens
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard,… — Richard Russo
Despite Langdonâ€™s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion… — Dan Brown
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half… — Isaac Asimov
I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for. — Neal Stephenson
I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful… — Flannery O'Connor
When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns… — Henri Matisse
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look… — Chuck Palahniuk
You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching… — Barbara Kingsolver
Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage.… — Jim Butcher

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