You Expect Quotes
412 You Expect quotes by 333 unique authors
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How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve…
— Thomas Merton
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If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
— Sylvia Plath
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If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.
— Jasper Fforde
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If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and…
— Stephen King
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Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what…
— John Steinbeck
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she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not.…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
— Jane Austen
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Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.
— Alan Moore
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...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?
— Hilda Doolittle
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I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. We?"…
— Joseph Heller
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Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with…
— Rick Warren
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I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the…
— Terry McMillan
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She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?" Why not?" Sure." His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out.…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and…
— Rhonda Byrne
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If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work…
— Stephen King
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...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me.…
— Chris Crutcher
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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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