Expect Quotes

4103 Expect quotes by 2712 unique authors

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a… — Saul Bellow
All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be. — Tennessee Williams
Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and… — Gregory David Roberts
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me.… — Chris Crutcher
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged… — John Marshall
I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep you off our… — Steve Harvey
At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the… — Shirley Hazzard
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think… — Cornelia Funke
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs… — Rick Moody
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys… — Fernando Pessoa
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and… — Jane Austen
Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong… — C.S. Lewis
Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed. — Cinda Williams Chima
Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail. — Alfred Lansing
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy… — Doris Lessing
Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen,… — Gennifer Choldenko
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. — Charles Dickens
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard,… — Richard Russo
Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion… — Dan Brown
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half… — Isaac Asimov
I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for. — Neal Stephenson
I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful… — Flannery O'Connor

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