Never Expected Love Quotes

#1. Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

Douglas Coupland

#2. He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

Raymond Queneau

#3. I look up into his face and catch a glimpse of an emotion I never expected to see. His hazel eyes are warm, his mouth is tender. He looks like a man in love.

Philippa Gregory

#4. If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

Joseph Chamberlain

#5. I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.

A. Zavarelli

#6. I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

Courtney Love

#7. I always thought that I was a good swimmer, you know? That in a sink or swim situation I would rise to the top. But the truth is I was drowning. I was sinking fast and you threw me a lifeline. I never expected to love you. But you saved my life. How could I not?

Rachel Hayes

#8. Service ... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

MC Frontalot

#9. You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed.

Alice Hoffman

#10. I made a vow to myself, then, that no one would ever control my emotions. I would save love for the children I expected to have and for my animals. I would never allow myself to be made weak by it, never allow anyone to come that close. It was a decision that would cloud my life for many years.

Toni Maguire

#11. The love we felt for each other while definitely never planned or expected as I suppose most love isnt had irrevocably seared us both deeply.

S.C. Stephens

#12. In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.

Cory Booker

#13. Laurelyn, I never expected to love you but I do ... with every fiber of my being.

Georgia Cates

#14. What I never expected is how much nothing there is afterwords. In life,, he was not nearby. Now he is everywhere I dream and every place I wake. Or if not him exactly, then a nothing so much like him I cannot seem to wish it goodnight.

Jim Moore

#15. I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

Gloria Steinem

#16. He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before ...

Jane Austen

#17. For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.

Jack Kerouac

#18. I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me.

Robin Hobb

#19. It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Cassandra Clare

#20. Last night with Rhys. It was ... the first time in years that I felt so loved. For what I am, for my faults and my virtues, for my past and my future. I haven't had that with a man since ... since I had it with you. And I never expected to have it again.

Elizabeth George

#21. I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

Clarke Peters

#22. I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

Justin Chon

#23. I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.

Michael Kirby

#24. The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday, like a visitor. Like a friend you never expected, a friend you never really want to be with, but he always visit you and love you somehow,

Xiaolu Guo

#25. There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#26. What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.

Jack McKeon

#27. [We're] told cars cause pollution. A 100 years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?

P. J. O'Rourke

#28. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.

Jocelyn Gibb

#29. I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

Karisma Kapoor

#30. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable.

W. Somerset Maugham

#31. Ohhh. Humanity, I Love You. You never cease to amaze me. This has been amusing, little ghost, and that was not something I expected. But every playtime must come to an end. This dream is over.
- "Playing House" From THE SANDMAN #12

Neil Gaiman

#32. If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions.

Carlson Gracie

#33. When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.

Thomas Merton

#34. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#35. I'm a cheesy over-the-top megalomaniac with a deep voice and the most amazing pecs.

David Hasselhoff

#36. You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon -

Ayn Rand

#37. Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.

Mark Batterson

#38. I had never expected to fall in love, but then, I'd never imagined anyone like Jess. She was one beautiful contradiction. The idea of letting someone else own my heart wasn't appealing. It sounded weak and Foolish. Something meant for the words of a song. I was wrong.

Abbi Glines

#39. You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.

Alice Hoffman

#40. I like being an editor, and I know how to make a magazine.

Roberto Civita