Expected Quotes

1453 quotes by 1199 authors

Happiness often comes when least expected. — FranÃ§ois Lelord
He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She… — Christine Feehan
From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had… — Jane Austen
The wolf stared down at me, paws still on my chest, its shaggy tail thumping from side tot side and spraying us both with snow.… — Jennifer Estep
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of… — Kenneth Grahame
He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy. — Anne Rice
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge. — Janet Evanovich
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. — Rex Stout
It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking… — Banana Yoshimoto
I don't know what I expected from my first meeting with Peeta after the announcement. A few hugs and kisses. A little comfort maybe. Not… — Suzanne Collins
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Come with me," Reyn said. "I want to show you something." Frankly, I had expected something more original. "Really?" I asked, "That's it? That's what… — Cate Tiernan
Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person.… — Francine Pascal
I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take. — Mohsin Hamid
Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected… — Elizabeth Scott
Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an… — Nicholas Sparks
She was heavier than he expected - women always are. — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring… — Gustave Flaubert

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