Expect Quotes
4103 quotes by 2822 authors
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You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.
— Janette Rallison
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..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.
— Helen Fielding
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Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots…
— Jim Butcher
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.
— Pittacus Lore
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Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it,…
— Rafael Sabatini
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I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you.†Daisy’s…
— Libba Bray
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lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an…
— Frank Zappa
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
— Jane Austen
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I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories,…
— David Levithan
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Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that?…
— Richelle Mead
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Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.
— Milan Kundera
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Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart…
— Emily Giffin
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Almost every time i saw you, you were with him. But one day, you walked up to the building alone. I was holding the door…
— Tammara Webber
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Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower…
— Susan Cain
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The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A…
— Neil Peart
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You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
— Anne Bronte
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You can't just change who you are on the outside and expect it to change who you are on the inside.
— Jessica Sorensen
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May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because…
— Jodi Picoult
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