Expecting Quotes
683 quotes by 567 authors
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Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and…
— Laurence Sterne
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King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.
— Robin Hobb
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If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what…
— Jodi Picoult
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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems…
— Charles de Lint
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Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop…
— Joseph Campbell
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But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I…
— Margaret Mitchell
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He put the book down. “As you wish.†He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he…
— Ilona Andrews
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Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.
— Christopher Paolini
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Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What…
— Douglas Coupland
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Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?' Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in…
— Eoin Colfer
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Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The…
— Ally Carter
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I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll…
— Markus Zusak
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You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it…
— Georgette Heyer
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I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would…
— James Patterson
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After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended…
— Mary Balogh
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Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood at the end…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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