Expecting Quotes

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They're fanatics. It's like expecting humanity from a falling rock. It's not going to have a fit of compassion and not crack your skull open. — Ilona Andrews
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon… — Jane Austen
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive. — Kurt Vonnegut
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being… — Alain de Botton
I wasnâ€™t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. Iâ€™d braced myself for disgust or anger.… — Maggie Stiefvater
You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that… — Lisa Kleypas
Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting your social calender?"… — Richelle Mead
I never went to Albuquerque expecting to find love. I thought it had found me there, followed me home. I never came home expecting to… — Ellen Hopkins
What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him… — Jonathan Franzen
I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting… — R.L. LaFevers
A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece… — Jodi Picoult
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a… — Maggie Stiefvater
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you. — Marjorie M. Liu
Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you… — Jeanette Winterson
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.… — Anne Carson
I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it. — Dylan Moran
But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly. — Scott Westerfeld
I speak and speak,â€ Marco says, â€œbut the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend… — Italo Calvino
There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself… — Thom Yorke
Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in,… — Lauren Oliver

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