Quotes About Expecting Someone

#1. Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

Lynn Coady

#2. The flawed human error is expecting someone else to build the world we desire, rather than creating it for ourselves.

Shawn Stern

#3. Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into
a hole. "It's you."
"You were expecting someone else?"
I asked. "Am I interrupting your social
calendar?" I made a big show of
glancing around the empty room. "I don't
want to keep you from the mob of fans
beating down your door.

Richelle Mead

#4. Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult

Marshall Sylver

#5. If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

Jennifer O'Neill

#6. You have to see the good in yourself before expecting someone else to see the good in you. Be aware of who you are and what you can truly be.

Blaque Diamond

#7. I frowned, gaping at the blond in disbelief. "You're the grim reaper?"
Tod glanced at me for the first time, his frown practically etched into place. "You were
expecting someone older? Taller? Maybe kind of gaunt and skeletal?"Contempt dripped from his words like acid.

Rachel Vincent

#8. Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.

Christopher Paolini

#9. Are you expecting someone to poison you?" he said, somewhat taken aback.
"Not really. But it seems to me that if you wait around until you know you need an antidote, it's probably too late to pick one up.

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. Having a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die

Wendy Wunder

#11. Instead of expecting someone from somewhere to spearhead or bring about a change that we desire, it is much more practical to begin to something personally.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. Rob?" she whispered, unsure if he would be easy to wake.
"Hmmm?" he answered sleepily, kissing her on top of her head as he pulled her naked body closer. "Were you expecting someone else?

Samantha Chase

#13. Well, fuck me. I was expecting someone-"
"With a penis and a deep voice? Sorry to disappoint.

Samantha Towle

#14. Human beings only learn by observing and copying. What does this really mean? It means that your friends will only tell you that your ideas are great once you succeed and never before that. Expecting someone's approval is a waste of time.

Robin Sacredfire

#15. I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.

Jeff Lindsay

#16. Firstly, phone calls constitute the most direct invasion of someone's space outside of actual physical contact. It strikes me that there is something downright arrogant about expecting someone to drop literally everything they are doing at a specific moment in order to attend to your voice,

Rebecca Davis

#17. I wish I'd learned then that when you call someone's bluff you usually win: it's simply not what the other person is expecting. And swimming along in the slipstream of another's current is no way to live.

Harriet Evans

#18. Just for today, i'll do something nice for someone who's not expecting it.

Tom Walsh

#19. I seem to remember a certain someone swearing that she couldn't dance at all. Obviously I must have been with her twin sister, because i was expecting you to step on my toes all night. Been taking lessons, Princess?
-Puck

Julie Kagawa

#20. That's stupid." I stopped to look at him. "why would you want everyone assuming something that isn't true?"
"Why should I care?"
"So you can ask someone you're interested in to go to the dance with you," I replied, not expecting his lack of concern.
"I just did.

Rebecca Donovan

#21. Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life

Maya Banks

#22. Today, say something nice to someone who isn't expecting you to.

Sherise Seven

#23. But she didn't fall. Someone was there, reaching an arm around her waist to steady her. She looked up expecting to see Nic, but it was Magnus.
His dark brows were drawn tightly together. Problem, princess?

Morgan Rhodes

#24. No one would dream of expecting a single individual to be "happy" - once someone is married, however, everyone is very astonished when he is not happy!

Rainer Maria Rilke

#25. There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

Thom Yorke

#26. Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting ... that the loved one will turn to someone else.

Agatha Christie

#27. If you marry someone expecting them to be like a god, it is only inevitable that they will disappoint you. It's not that you should try to love your spouse less, but rather that you should know and love God more.

Timothy Keller

#28. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

#29. I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

Kris Allen

#30. I think you spend your life expecting to be disappointed, so when someone hurts you just a tiny bit, you can say: there I was right all along...You like being right.

Liza Conrad

#31. I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even thought about turning 60 yet, but so many of my friends have celebrated it by now that it's lost its terror. And I don't mind being 58; it's just such a surprise when one doesn't feel it at all.

Deborah Moggach

#32. Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me.

Melody Beattie

#33. [W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to be available to work all the time. Scheduling is impossible.

Linda Tirado

#34. God wants you to live each day expecting a miracle, but beyond that, it's God's plan for you to become someone else's miracle.

Jamie Larbi

#35. Love is doing a kindness for someone else, not expecting to receive anything in return.

Sylvain Reynard

#36. Never love someone with expecting return. Love is love's reward.

Debasish Mridha

#37. Allowing someone to be who they really are, on their terms, instead of expecting them to be who you wish they were - that's always a choice.

Sarah Fine

#38. They need a little girl with innocence and freedom. One that can smile with ease instead of someone who can only form a grimace. They were probably expecting the same girl that they knew nine years ago. What a disappointment if must have been to meet me.

Sydney Blore

#39. Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

Melody Beattie

#40. Well, you can't walk into someone's house and demand to go through their attic without expecting a few duels.

Rainbow Rowell

#41. Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.

David

#42. You mustn't wait for someone to rescue you, ... A girl expecting rescue never learns to rescue herself. Even with the means, she'll find her courage wanting.

Kate Morton

#43. Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.

Nick Kelsh

#44. So here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn't want. Instead I was embraced.

Kiera Cass

#45. Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

Simon Sinek