Expected Quote by Donna Tartt Download Open image “Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.” — Donna Tartt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expected Way
I always expected something but I realized, in life nothing can ever be expected. — Jonathan Copy Share Image
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way. — George R. Stewart Copy Share Image
It is beautiful when the unexpected that took the place of the expected becomes better than the expected. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We all have expectations but sometimes the greatest thing is to be surprised with what happens and to find out that it is quite… — Alex Zanardi Copy Share Image
Look how often the unexpected happens - yet we still never expect it. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“maybe that’s what’s waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True love does not consist in trying to correct others, but in feeling joy that things are better than we expected. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity. — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image