Expect Quotes
4103 Expect quotes by 2712 unique authors
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If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can…
— Salman Rushdie
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I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character…
— Philip Pullman
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The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.
— Don DeLillo
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What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened…
— Sharon Creech
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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
— Lynda Barry
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What do you think? Does everything look right? " " You really expect me to look at anything but you? " She laughed even as…
— Nora Roberts
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If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look…
— John C. Maxwell
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Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for…
— Daniel Handler
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I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we…
— C.S. Lewis
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the…
— Brenda Ueland
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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work…
— Stephen King
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To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of…
— Richard Dawkins
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Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty…
— Barbara Mertz
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never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in…
— Jane Austen
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The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well.
— Nora Roberts
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pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer,…
— Haruki Murakami
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The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering…
— Nhat Hanh
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Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another.…
— Slash
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But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's…
— Cynthia Rylant
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To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
— James Hillman
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