Expect Quotes
4103 Expect quotes by 2712 unique authors
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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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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
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I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
— Sigmund Freud
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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
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I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We are never prepared for what we expect.
— James A. Michener
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You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
— Laini Taylor
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Did you think you could dump me, and I’d bounce back to her and miraculously be happy? I’m not a Ping-Pong ball. You can’t just…
— Rachel Vincent
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People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.
— R.L. LaFevers
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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
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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
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