We Expect Quotes
248 quotes by 221 authors
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Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we…
— Holly Black
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be…
— Jane Austen
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Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.
— Margaret Mitchell
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Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't…
— Sidney Poitier
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How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him
— Beth Moore
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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
— Robert Jordan
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And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?
— James M. Barrie
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Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere…
— R A Salvatore
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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give…
— Julian Barnes
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The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to…
— Cassandra Clare
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We expect more from technology and less from each other.
— Sherry Turkle
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We are never prepared for what we expect.
— James A. Michener
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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you,…
— Frederick Buechner
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One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect…
— Muhammad Ali
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Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.
— Richard Rohr
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The last thing we expect others to do, its the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.
— Lauren Kate
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we…
— Jeff Bezos
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