Expect Quotes

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Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair.… — Sarah Dunn
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your… — Thomas Merton
i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive — Jorge Luis Borges
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will… — William Faulkner
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them. — Cecelia Ahern
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my… — Rabih Alameddine
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. — Oscar Wilde
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually… — James Patterson
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that… — Lev Grossman
The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed… — Audrey Niffenegger
It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in… — David Nicholls
Jeremy had a plan for getting Clay back and I wasn't allowed to know anything about it or allowed to help him carry it out.… — Kelley Armstrong
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said… — Jonathan Stroud
let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw.… — Jodi Picoult
She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious… — Diana Gabaldon
...still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you;… — Diana Gabaldon
Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time. " I turned and met the amused eyes of Christian Ozera, a onetime annoyance… — Richelle Mead

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