Top 100 Expect It Quotes
#1. It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same.
Katie McGarry
#2. But hope is an elusive thing, always there, but never where you expect it to be. After all, hope's brother is despair, and they're always working together to crush the minds and souls of even the strongest men and women.
David Estes
#3. The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.
Walter Kirn
#4. When you least expect it, life may propose something to you. Something you might not necessarily be looking for, but without a doubt has the ability to offer your life some form of enrichment.
Scott Hildreth
#5. It's funny how nothing really turns out the way we expect it to, no matter how certain the future seems. I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit
Cassia Leo
#6. I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#7. This is just your unwritten life. You didn't expect it, it just happened.
Amy Shannon
#8. I always hate people that complain about showbiz after they've had a good run. To me there are so many great bands that never get their due, that are struggling away. And I'm like, if you hit the lottery, man, you can't expect it to come around every time.
Miles Zuniga
#9. You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.
Charles Duhigg
#10. Have you ever noticed that salvation, much like your car keys, is usually found where and when you least expect it? (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#11. Is it loaded?"
"Yes."
Moving the pillow and carefully holding the murder weapon, he asked, "Expecting trouble?"
"If you expect it, it never comes."
RESOLVE by J.J. Hensley - Chapter 20
J.J. Hensley
#12. Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.
Mary Jo Putney
#13. You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
Sarah Dessen
#14. Life is never what you expect it to be. Sex has more to do with salt than sweetness. The sky is white as often as it's blue.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#15. Death is the guest you didn't invite: arriving when you least expect it, least need it and when you least want it.
Jodi Picoult
#16. Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate.
Sun Tzu
#17. Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she's come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.
Christina Baker Kline
#18. Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.
Lemony Snicket
#19. I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect it to take off the way it did. I couldn't be happier. I love the chance to play so many different characters every day.
Kari Wahlgren
#20. I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.
Shahid Kapoor
#21. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have specific reason to expect it - and
Ayn Rand
#22. Love will find you when you least expect it.
Taylor Swift
#23. You are so going down for that." He grabbed the keys and headed back to the road. "When you least expect it," he added over his shoulder.
"I'm shaking in my shoes," she called out.
"You're not wearing any."
"Exactly."
Damn, he liked this girl.
Robin Bielman
#24. You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
Dagobert D. Runes
#25. So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.
Lucas Papademos
#26. But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.
R. YS Perez
#27. But at the end of every show we would realize that true happiness often lies where you very least expect it. It might arrive in a form of a gentle breeze or a handful of peanuts, but when it came, we would seize it with our own brand of folksy wisdom.
David Sedaris
#28. Want your obedience. I expect it - no, I demand it. I don't relish nor will I enjoy the idea of punishing you. So if you seek to bait me so that you enjoy the thrill of discipline, you're sure to be disappointed.
Maya Banks
#29. I'm going to kiss you when you least expect it. And it WILL be epic.
Samantha Young
#30. The world is full of impossibilities - some beautiful, some terrible - but sometimes, when you least expect it, they can become possible.
Lisa Mangum
#31. There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.
David Walton
#32. I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#33. Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
Hermann Hesse
#34. It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized ... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to ... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.
Dan Castellaneta
#35. As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.
Marv Levy
#36. Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.
Maggie Kuhn
#37. Love's alchemical power is nevermore clear than in the moments when we least expect it to grace our lives; for love transforms, love transcends, love awakens.
Atalina Wright
#38. What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.
Charlaine Harris
#39. If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
#40. When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#41. When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.
Steve Valentine
#42. I think a lot of actors, we underprepare emotionally for how intense pilot season can be. And we underprepare the people around us, our support system. So when it starts taking up more time than you expect it to, we feel guilty.
Autumn Reeser
#43. We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.
Jean Liedloff
#44. Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.
Michael Jordan
#45. Love finds you. You always get smacked with love when you least expect it.
Scott Eastwood
#46. I think when you least expect it, love will knock you flat on your ass
Danielle Jamie
#47. I don't know how this interrogation found its way into my bed. May I ask where I can expect it to travel next?
C.S. Pacat
#48. I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen ... go wrong
George MacDonald Fraser
#49. That's okay," Apollo replied, smiling at him in a wholly creepy' hide your kids' kind of way. "When you least expect it, I'm going to turn you into a a pink flower that smells like cat pee.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#50. You can't tame a wolf and expect it to lie before your hearth in harmony. Sooner or later, the nature of the beast sets in and it does what its instincts tell it - it kills.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. Because when you least expect it...love happens.
Sophia Tallon
#52. You can't make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.
Jennifer Hudson
#53. What I'm saying here is sometimes the one you love introduces you to the person inside - the real one who you're close to, you don't even recognize her. Sometimes the one you love knows you better than you know yourself. They bring out the best in us when we least expect it.
Kendall Grey
#54. I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.
Claudia Rankine
#55. Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it.
Jonathan Tropper
#56. I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.
Rose McGowan
#57. It's an important skill to know when not to say anything. It's not a skill that came naturally to me then, nor does it come naturally now, nor do I expect it to come naturally to me until I am dead, when I will be very, very good at it.
Lemony Snicket
#58. It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall.
Sophia Amoruso
#59. If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
Cormac McCarthy
#60. When love hits you, it hits you and you don't expect it.
Selena
#61. The truth is that God has a miracle planned for you too, if you are willing to expect it, look for it, and wait for it to play out in God's perfect timing.
Tracie Miles
#62. The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.
Eden Phillpotts
#63. Love happens sublimely, serenely and accidentally! It will happen when you least expect it to!
Avijeet Das
#64. I just didn't expect it. It was asparagus ... He literally punched someone over a vegetable.
Kiera Cass
#65. Life inspires me. Life is unfair, unkind and unforeseeable. It knocks you down when you least expect it.
Lisa De Jong
#66. There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.
Michael Jordan
#67. And this is the world you saved. Did you expect it to be different, suddenly? Did you expect it to be grateful?
Kate Milford
#68. Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you might smell something or see something that might trigger something, and all of a sudden you get hit with this rush of emotion.
Michael B. Jordan
#69. Just when you least expect it,
enkantos will always have a way of surprising you.
Arnold Arre
#70. Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it ...
Dean Koontz
#71. No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.
Charles R. Swindoll
#72. Anything that's worth having is worth fighting for. Love is a strange thing. It shows up when you least expect it and defies expectation.
H.M. Ward
#73. I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.
Mark Boal
#74. And her voice, it's exactly the same. I don't know why I'd expect it to be different except that everything's different now.
Gayle Forman
#76. ...all of the effort creates beauty, something so powerful that it combines all senses, all emotions, encouraging the mind and body to experience it simultaneously. Then the mind stores it all together like treasures to reopen throughout life, sometimes when you least expect it.
J.M. Miller
#77. The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else.
S.A. Tawks
#78. Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.
Vernon Baker
#79. Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.
Idries Shah
#81. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.
Stephen Hunter
#82. View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.
Denis Waitley
#83. You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart.
Debasish Mridha
#84. I'm not sure I know how to make music anymore. Maybe you're given a window into things for a time, and beyond that maybe it goes away. Why should you expect it to stay?
Nellie McKay
#85. The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
Bernard Malamud
#86. I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#87. The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is justified by a big final twist. But it's three days after the screening, and still no twist. Maybe it's coming in the mail?
Kyle Smith
#88. Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.
Lewis Carroll
#89. Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.
Adyashanti
#90. If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.
Kristin Cavallari
#91. no place is how you expect it to be, and the best thing to do is to not want things in the first place.
Carrot Quinn
#92. Sometimes, even those whom we consider as our close friends may betray us so easily, in a moment when we do not even expect it. Such is the truth of life, despite so many eloquent odes humanity dedicated to friendship.
Sahara Sanders
#93. Wow. So you didn't expect it?"
"No. Not at all."
"Were you like, 'Fuck!
Sophie Kinsella
#94. You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.
George Bernard Shaw
#95. It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.
Mark Obmascik
#96. I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.
Muriel Wace
#97. A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
Kate Chopin
#98. Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.
Debbie Ford
#99. Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.
Gerald Hausman
#100. The Eater of Socks,' moaned the Senior Wrangler, with his eyes shut. 'How many tentacles would you expect it to have?' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. 'I mean, roughly speaking?
Terry Pratchett
