Top 100 Expect Nothing Quotes
#1. Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.
Nancy Werlin
#2. If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing
J.M. Darhower
#3. Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
Barry Sanders
#5. I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.
Sylvia Kristel
#6. To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
James Hillman
#7. When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#8. Just become a little alert and start the change from your side; don't expect it from the other side. It will begin from the other side, too. And it costs nothing to smile, it costs nothing to love, it costs nothing to share your happiness with somebody you love.
Osho
#9. Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.
Frank Leslie
#10. How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!
Hilary McKay
#11. They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.
Kamila Shamsie
#12. The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.
H. H. Asquith
#13. Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.
John Maynard Keynes
#14. Once you figure out what you want in life - expect nothing less.
Lorii Myers
#15. Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?
Nelou Keramati
#16. If you expect nothing but success, then you will be a success.
Debasish Mridha
#17. We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.
Eleanor Catton
#18. Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
Francois Fenelon
#19. Only when I hold onto nothing can I be the best, only then can I be what they expect me to be.
Ally Condie
#20. Do not expect something for nothing. Be willing to give an equivalent value for all that you desire, and include in your plans a definite provision for doing so.
Napoleon Hill
#21. Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.
Daniel Quinn
#22. Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.
Joan Didion
#23. Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. expect nothing - get nothing! but expect something - get something!!
Benjamin Franklin
#24. Expect nothing and appreciate the value of everything; this is the true lesson of the Rule of Acceptance.
Michael Tlanusta Garrett
#25. Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
Lawrence Fagg
#26. So don't expect me to care when you find yourself nothing more than a puppet. If you aren't one already." He
Sarah J. Maas
#28. When you know nothing about a creature," the monk ground out, his voice as hard as a rock slide, "expect it has come to kill you.
Brian Staveley
#29. You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts.
Daniel Kahneman
#30. Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
#31. To not hope, to expect nothing, to dismiss at every turn - these had been her only protection against certain devastation. Disappointment could not ensue when one failed to gain what one had never wished for.
Galen Beckett
#32. As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!
Bill Courtney
#33. Pray not while you can work. Hope is the least of what life can afford you, never the best. Hope is a plague, never a blessing, especially when the answer is sought not from us but from others. It is unqualified burden to expect something from nothing.
Dew Platt
#34. Words mean nothing
Actions are everything
Expect nothing
Appreciate everything
Patrick Cruz
#36. Life can catch you off guard. It smacks you in the face when you least expect it. There is nothing that you can do but accept what has been given to you and work with what you have.
Joann Buchanan
#38. Piggy took off his shoes and socks, ranged them carefully on the ledge and tested the water with one toe. 'It's hot!' 'What did you expect?' 'I didn't expect nothing. My auntie-' 'Sucks to your auntie!
William Golding
#39. It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.
David Gemmell
#40. Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. Edwards Deming
#42. If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.
Tonya Hurley
#43. Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.
Paulo Coelho
#44. She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all.
Donna Lynn Hope
#45. Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.
Hugh Jackman
#46. One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.
Andre Breton
#47. You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
Halsey
#48. The wheel of fortune lifts us up and brings us down. You must free your happiness from its vagaries. Expect nothing, and everything is a gift.
Phil Tucker
#49. I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to you, because you already know what to expect for the rest of eternity. Nothing more and nothing less.
Lionel Suggs
#50. There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the altar;
but a man does not expect to get four thousand pounds a year for nothing.
Anthony Trollope
#51. Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything ...
Harry Houdini
#52. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
Alice Walker
#53. Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm
#54. Nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn't and naturally concludes that she has gone mad.
Susanna Clarke
#55. The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.
Emma Watson
#56. But children die how they have been living-with hope. They don't what is happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand-but you end up needing them to hold yours.
Tea Obreht
#57. Another ten points from Gryffindor," said Snape. "I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.
J.K. Rowling
#58. Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them. I
Agatha Christie
#59. A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return
Anonymous
#60. Expect nothing of Walder Frey, and you will never be surprised.
George R R Martin
#62. Then again, how could he expect Bela to be interested in marriage, given the example he and Gauri had given? They were a family of solitaries. They had collided and dispersed. This was her legacy. If nothing else, she had inherited that impulse from them.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#63. The sort of formality that goes into my artwork I would not expect from everybody in the world. I'm sort of pushing that point to its limit, in my mind, but I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with using a laptop so long as we have some understanding of how it works a little bit.
Tristan Perich
#64. I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.
Henry Rollins
#65. They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen ... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
Evelyn Waugh
#66. Expect nothing, and you will enjoy everything!
Ethan Hawke
#67. 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 nothing in return.
Muhammad Ali
#68. Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you'd expect.
C.J. Redwine
#69. Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Ayn Rand
#70. Say nothing of the new life you have begun or of the experiment you are making and experiences you expect to have. All this is a matter between God and you, and only between you two.
Tito Colliander
#71. Happy are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed."5
Edward H. Burtt Jr.
#73. Sometimes, that's the way it is with people. You think you can tell what they are based on the patterns that you see, but when you take a look inside, they're nothing like you expect them to be.
Bella Forrest
#74. Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect.
Colin Powell
#75. Alas, a great many people play at praying; it is nothing better. I say they play at praying; they do not expect God to give them an answer, and thus they are mere triflers who mock the Lord. He who prays in a businesslike way, meaning what he says, honors the Lord.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#76. Both men had talked of their intentions to commit suicide. Both used the typical argument - they had nothing more to expect from life. In both cases it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something
Viktor E. Frankl
#77. People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.
Marilyn Manson
#78. I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.
David S.Goyer
#79. The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
Alexandra David-Neel
#80. Hey, Reece."
There was nothing but silence for a while and I waited.
Then Reece said, "Expected it to happen eventually, darlin', but didn't expect it to hit me that hard the first time I heard a man answer your phone.
Kristen Ashley
#81. There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Anatole Broyard
#82. I'm calling because that's what women expect men to do. You expect us to call at least once a day, proving we're capable of thinking of nothing but you when we're not. We're thinking of work.
Kristen Ashley
#83. I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.
Howard Norman
#84. Don't Expect What Goes Around to Come Around. Total jerks and evil people often get all the good breaks. Being nice guarantees nothing. Good things happen to bad people. Sometimes, things just don't "balance out" or "work out for the best.
Paul Pearsall
#85. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#86. 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 the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.
Stephen King
#87. You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing ... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
Yahya Jammeh
#88. But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I'll find a way to kill you this time."
His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he'd accepted a challenge I didn't even know I'd laid down. "I'd expect nothing less."
Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.
Pippa DaCosta
#89. Happy are those who expect nothing; they won't be disappointed
Abel
#90. My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.
Marilyn Manson
#91. A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
Arthur Dean
#92. If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#93. When the only answer a little girl ever receives is no, from her parents or her teachers or her world, at some point she stops asking for what she wants. She begins to expect nothing, so as not to be disappointed when that exactly what she gets. But, it turns out, I do have wants.
Laura Fitzgerald
#94. I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
Henry Miller
#95. I think when love sneaks up on you, when it grabs onto you when you least expect it, maybe that's more of a sign that it's real. That it's meant to be and nothing could stop the two of you from falling for each other.
Nyrae Dawn
#96. It is only practice that improves our minds as well as bodies, and we must expect nothing from our understandings any farther than they are perfected by habits.
John Locke
#97. A girl has to dream and expect more. If women expected nothing from men, men would never amount to much.
Natasha Boyd
#98. Have some whiskey,there's nothing like it for clearing the head. You must expect to be thick-witted if you insist upon drinking beer.
W. Somerset Maugham
#99. If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing - and you will have it all!
Ernie J Zelinski
#100. To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Ivan Turgenev
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