Expected Quotes

1453 quotes by 1199 authors

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to. — Ann Brashares
I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed… — Nora Roberts
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should… — George Orwell
It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see… — Jim Butcher
Despite Langdonâ€™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
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected. — Ayn Rand
I'd kind of expected that kids who knew about the Real World wouldn't act like jock dipwads. Guess I was wrong. — Lilith Saintcrow
Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer. — Dan Brown
On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his… — Dean Koontz
I expected something a little more castle-shaped," said Jamie. Nothing lasts forever," Nick said. "Except demons, of course." Has anyone ever told you that you're… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort… — Anne Tyler
Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head. — Shannon Hale
Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into… — Christopher Isherwood
He sighed deeply: to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see, no pretensions to… — Betty Neels
Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "Iâ€™ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites,… — Kristin Cashore
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. — Alexandra Ivy
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a… — Terry Pratchett
See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly… — Nicholas Sparks
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? — Louis de Bernieres
It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe. — John Flanagan

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