Expect Quotes

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A man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect. — Lynda Barry
you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard — Paulo Coelho
If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon — Po Bronson
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. — Michael Pollan
Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes!… — Billie Letts
We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour… — Eric Jerome Dickey
The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. — Sara Gruen
Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner.… — Nancy Werlin
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling,… — Josh Lanyon
Gather up In the arms of your loveâ€”Those who expect No love from above. — Langston Hughes
Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human. — John Flanagan
Oh, Callie-mine," Anne said, her voice taking on a tone she'd used when Callie was a little girl and crying over some injustice, "your white… — Sarah MacLean
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — Anthony Burgess
In a month, the passes into Teutlandt and Skanida will be open and my companion and I will be on our way." He paused and… — John Flanagan
Stay out of this, Zebulon. (Dolophoni) You guys come to my town, you donâ€™t call. You donâ€™t write. And you expect me to just let… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh. — Jim C. Hines
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we… — Holly Black
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and… — Susan Sontag

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