Expected Quotes

1453 quotes by 1199 authors

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With… — Richelle Mead
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about… — Jodi Picoult
We all think weâ€™re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations arenâ€™t met. But sometimes our expectations sell… — Shonda Rhimes
i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him… — Ellen Hopkins
Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to… — Nick Hornby
I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes itâ€™s not for quite as long as we would have expected or… — Jodi Picoult
I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense… — Jamaica Kincaid
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but… — Joan Didion
(Unsure if she should laugh or groan, Astrid held fast to the tank before her as Zarek pushed the snowmachine to the limits. It vibrated… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed… — Leo Tolstoy
As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically. — Junot Diaz
We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No… — Michael Crichton
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected. — Alice Hoffman
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life… — Charlotte Bronte
We went to the door and I let Asha in. I expected an uberawkward moment when he and Vayl met. But Asha took care of… — Jennifer Rardin
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival… — Jeffrey Eugenides
You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much." -Acheron — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You missed the point completely! You're acting..." The word stuck in my throat. He didn't hesitate to say it. "Jealous?" When I nodded, he continued.… — Maria V. Snyder

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