Expects Quotes
344 quotes by 293 authors
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The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain…
— Libba Bray
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No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide…
— Slash
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At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the…
— Shirley Hazzard
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Duty is what one expects from others.
— Oscar Wilde
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I am messaging you to say that I love you, and that you're completely wrong about me thinking you're stupid. I always thought you could…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight…
— Zadie Smith
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Sometimes,†Joe said after a bit, “it’s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that’s what you’re not, anymore.
— Megan Hart
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God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless…
— Benjamin Carson
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I don’t think God has a gender. I don’t think God hates gays or Democrats, and I don’t think you have to be Born Again…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and…
— Brian Jacques
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Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the…
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
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Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his…
— John Flanagan
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I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must…
— Kirsten Miller
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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
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They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is…
— Markus Zusak
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I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have.…
— Emily Giffin
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From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.…
— Peter Straub
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