Expect Quotes

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Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than… — Brandon Sanderson
I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment. — Sigmund Freud
We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul.… — Ellen G. White
I am a Christianâ€¦so that I do not expect â€˜historyâ€™ to be anything but a â€˜long defeatâ€™ â€” though it contains (and in a legend… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are never prepared for what we expect. — James A. Michener
You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We canâ€™t expect the world to be better than we make it. — Laini Taylor
Did you think you could dump me, and Iâ€™d bounce back to her and miraculously be happy? Iâ€™m not a Ping-Pong ball. You canâ€™t just… — Rachel Vincent
People hear and see what they expect to hear and see. — R.L. LaFevers
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm already waiting when Puck gets to the top of the cliffs. I'm not the only one; about two dozen race tourists have made perches… — Maggie Stiefvater
Men see what they expect to see. — George R. R. Martin
A moment is all you can expect from perfection. — Chuck Palahniuk
You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake! Gideon raised one eyebrow.… — Kerstin Gier
When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can… — Albert Camus
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to… — Jane Austen
I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give. — Nora Roberts
How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you canâ€™t even understand one another? — Stanislaw Lem
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer.… — Corrie Ten Boom
Sirius looked slightly disconcerted for a moment, then said, "I'll look for him later, I expect I'll find him upstairs crying his eyes out over… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course — Bernard Malamud

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