Expected Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner Download Open image “She was heavier than he expected - women always are.” — Sylvia Townsend Warner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expected
She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“No wonder she was so underweight. She was desperate to please a woman that could never be pleased, in the hopes of being loved… — Rose Wynters Copy Share Image
“I once heard her tell a friend that she was, in fact, a 120-pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat in order… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Weight is an intensely personal, sensitive and often tricky issue for women and it is something women talk about a lot among themselves, usually… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
“She was grossly overweight, though I could tell from her refined features that she may have been quite pretty in a younger, leaner life.” — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“It is,” answered Laura with almost violent agreement. “If you are a were-wolf, and very likely you may be, for lots of people are… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ...… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones. — Sylvia Townsend Warner 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