Top 100 Least Expect Quotes
#1. The monster always approaches from the direction you least expect.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#2. The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.
Colleen Gleason
#3. Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
Ewan McGregor
#4. Trust is a tricky thing. It can bite you hard when you least expect it to.
Steph Campbell
#5. The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you.
S.A. Tawks
#6. Faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
George Sand
#7. Cupid," Jason called, "where are you?"
'Where you least expect me,' Cupid answered. 'As love always is.
Rick Riordan
#8. Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.
Michelle Phan
#9. I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.
Stan Lee
#10. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
#11. People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
George Eliot
#12. memories happen when we least expect them.
Jose Chaves
#13. Sometimes that which is most precious can be found where you would least expect to.
David Gaider
#14. No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
Mark Zandi
#15. This makes it sound as if light has intentionality, and I resisted the temptation to say light considers all paths and chooses the one that takes the least time because I fully expect that Deepak Chopra would later quote me as implying that light has consciousness.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#16. Remember that sometimes you find your destiny in the places you least expect it.
Sarah Holman
#17. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#18. Is that the moral of it all, he thought? the moral of the whole story: that there is time enough for everything? Is that how morals come, unbidden, in the course of events, when you least expect them?
J.M. Coetzee
#19. Are people being the least you expect of them, or the best they expect themselves to be?
Ron Kaufman
#20. May love find you when you least expect, where you least expect.
Elif Shafak
#21. The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Gene Spafford
#22. Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate
how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#23. That's the thing about love, my dear. It comes when you least expect it, when you least want it, and when you have sworn to yourself you're done with such foolish dealings, POOF! There is Mr. Wonderful standing right in front of you, stealing your heart away.
Kate Danley
#24. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
Maggie Kuhn
#25. I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#26. I think you fall in love with someone when you least expect to. When it's the last thing you want. That's what's so great about it.
Katie Klein
#27. I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can
Kay Hooper
#28. Challenges come our way when we least expect them; our insecurities, desires, balance, & conscience are tested in the process.
April Mae Monterrosa
#29. Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
#30. Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
Gregory David Roberts
#31. Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least expect to find it.
Alice Hoffman
#32. Sometimes, when we least expect it, we catch a glimpse of someone, a face, perhaps only a smile, and our heart latches on and will not let go. It may not be love at first, but soon and for always.
Regan Walker
#33. Oh sure, some people give a little bit each day. But there are one or two special souls who, when you least expect it, give an entire life's worth all at once.
Pleasefindthis
#34. Eric kisses me so tenderly that it unravels me. I kiss him back, trying to find the same depth of faith. I kiss him back, although I can still taste Fitz, like a stolen candy tucked high against my cheek, sweet when I least expect it.
Jodi Picoult
#35. You see, fear is a hunter. It encircles us when we are unarmed and least expect it. And then we are forced to make decisions.
Ruta Sepetys
#36. I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you least expect it.
Geneva Carr
#37. If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.
Myron Tribus
#38. You know what love is? Maureen said to me that day...it's what you least expect.
Alice Hoffman
#39. I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality ... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
Sigmund Freud
#40. In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes
Karl Rahner
#42. Each of us represents a star in the sky; sometimes we shine with the rest, sometimes we twinkle alone, and sometimes ... when we least expect it ... we make someone's dreams come true..
Unknown
#43. You will not always be happy but I guarantee it that you will always be lucky as an artist when you least expect it.
Abigail George
#44. Magic : when you create something from the materials around you to astound and make the audience say "Wow." Magic happens on mundane days. It happens when you least expect it. It brings a spark to our drab and monotonous days.
Avijeet Das
#45. God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
Euripides
#46. I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
Clare Boothe Luce
#47. Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming.
Dave Gahan
#48. Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room. Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you
Aimee Carter
#49. At least with my father, the danger was out in the open. I knew what to expect. But Auntie Cath is a different kind of dark altogether.
The worst kind.
The kind made from love.
Dawn Kurtagich
#50. FIRST MORAL
Good manners are not easy
They need a little care,
But when we least expect it
Bring rewards both rich and rare.
SECOND MORAL
Brute force or bribes of diamonds
Bend others to your will,
But gentle words have greater power
And gain more conquests still.
Charles Perrault
#51. In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
Marc Andreessen
#52. 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
#53. Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.
Dora Russell
#54. 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
#55. Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it ...
Phil Cousineau
#56. We grow to deserve what we need to believe ...
Since I've known you
I've been careful not to pray out loud
Wishes have a way of coming true when you least expect ...
Merrit Malloy
#57. I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.
Flannery O'Connor
#58. Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.
Vincent De Paul
#59. To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.
Gregory Bateson
#60. I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!
Donald Glover
#61. You know what love is? ... It's what you least expect.
Alice Hoffman
#62. We can hide in a cupboard under the stairs our whole life and it'll still find us. Death will show up wearing an invisible cloak and it will wave a magic wand and whisk us away when we least expect it.
Tahereh Mafi
#63. And remember, sometimes our dreams appear where and when we least expect it. Sometimes, just sometimes, you can even find them waiting in your own bed when you open your eyes. (Esther)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.
Monica Lewinsky
#65. God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.
James Fenimore Cooper
#66. All my shoes somehow magically disappeared. But I'm not concerned. They'll show up sometime - even when you least expect it.
Luna Lovegood
#67. Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
Regina Brett
#68. Life's gonna kick you in the butt.
That's what it does.
But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn't in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat)
Richelle E. Goodrich
#69. Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
Ovid
#70. There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.
Nicholas Sparks
#71. Time cannot destroy it. I am that love - time cannot touch me. Time but changes the form. Somewhere in some time it will return. When you least expect it, the face of a loved one reappears. Look beyond that face and you will see me.
Christopher Pike
#72. I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.
May Sarton
#73. Love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.
Mark Batterson
#74. Things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention to the details. The devil is in the details.
Lesley Kagen
#75. Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#76. You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
Zadie Smith
#77. Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.
Douglas Adams
#78. 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 what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
Stephen King
#79. The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.
Napoleon Hill
#80. When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour's cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.
Margot McCuaig
#81. But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.
Lena Dunham
#82. the worst happens when you least expect it
Dean Koontz
#83. That, at least, is true. He hasn't replied. I didn't expect him to. I am cut off from him, shut out. The things
Paula Hawkins
#84. The motivation sometimes comes when you least expect it. I try to keep an open mind.
DJ Quik
#85. I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.
Walter Hagen
#86. Discernment is first of all a habit, a way of seeing that eventually permeates our whole life. It is the journey from spiritual blindness (not seeing God anywhere or seeing him only where we expect to see him) to spiritual sight (finding God everywhere, especially where we least expect it).
Ruth Haley Barton
#87. If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.
Stan Smith
#88. 119. Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid
#89. i smile. things taken for granted have a way of catching you offguard when you least expect it, and then you're taken by what the portuguese calls saudade, a sense of longing for something, someone not there anymore.
Yeow Kai Chai
#90. Reality is a gravitational pull, yanking us back down to earth when we least expect it.
Cassia Leo
#91. Second chances come when we least expect them.
Lisi Harrison
#92. We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.
Tim Pawlenty
#93. The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.
Thomas S. Monson
#94. 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
#95. Personalities change when you least expect them
G.M.
#96. Love finds you when you least expect it. Under seemingly impossible circumstances, but it was there. Young and blooming still. Unwavering and constant. Love truly did conquer all. Love required trust, unconditional faith in the face of adversity.
Maya Banks
#97. One afternoon, as Rose lay in a sweaty daze, teetering on the edge of consciousness, she made me swear that I would look after Linden, and I promised I would. I didn't expect to keep that promise, but maybe my,lie will at least do him some good in the meantime.
Lauren DeStefano
#98. I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!
Anne Perry
#99. Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.
Alton Brown
#100. Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
Jim Valvano
