Top 100 Quotes About Never Expected
#1. I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare to climb higher.
Marlon James
#2. I would never have been discovered without the X Factor. I was just doing the working men's clubs and I loved doing that. That was the life for me at that time. I never expected to be noticed doing that, that's why I went for X Factor by myself.
Shayne Ward
#3. I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
Paul Newman
#4. -perhaps by sitting down to enjoy one of the microwavable organic TV dinners(four words I never expected to see conjoined)stacked in the frozen food case.
Michael Pollan
#5. I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.
Jill Scott
#6. I had never expected medicine to be such a lawless, uncertain world. I wondered if the compulsive naming of parts, diseases, and chemical reactions - frenulum, otitis, glycolysis - was a mechanism invented by doctors to defend themselves against a largely unknowable sphere of knowledge.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#7. Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."
The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.
P.L. Travers
#8. 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
#9. Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.
Michael Specter
#10. I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy
#11. 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
#12. I never expected my story to change, but it did. Stories tend to do that; you go out searching for something and come back with something different.
Katy Evans
#13. I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
Romesh Gunesekera
#14. When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.
John Barrasso
#15. I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.
Stan Wawrinka
#16. He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.
Arthur C. Clarke
#17. I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will Rogers
#18. People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!
Mark Hamill
#19. I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.
David Livermore
#20. I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more
Alan Greenspan
#21. I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
Noam Chomsky
#22. I play a character in the WWE and everybody hates my character. I'm the evil villain bad guy. Whenever people meet me, they're like, 'Wow, you're such a nice guy. We never expected that.'
Chris Jericho
#23. I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.
Melina Marchetta
#24. I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn
#25. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
Shawn Johnson
#26. No rush. This time things were slow and earnest. This time I wasn't looking for an escape. This time it was about him. About me. About honesty and compassion and everything I'd never expected to find in Wesley Rush.
Kody Keplinger
#27. A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.
Tove Jansson
#28. I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
Gloria Steinem
#29. Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.
Eric S. Raymond
#30. I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
Sarah Waters
#31. Death by hanging ... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
#32. I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year.
Chris Bosh
#33. I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.
James Frey
#34. I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.
John Trudell
#35. I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
Maya Angelou
#36. He was a district attorney in Pennsylvania. I was a writer on Cape Cod. We had been privates in the war, infantry scouts. We had never expected to make any money after the war, but we were doing quite well.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.
Richard M. Nixon
#38. 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
#39. That was the recipe of our relationship, I think. We gave each other what we never expected to find.
Ian Caldwell
#40. We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.
Thuy Trang
#41. I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird' ... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
Harper Lee
#42. When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.
Louis Sachar
#43. Laurelyn, I never expected to love you but I do ... with every fiber of my being.
Georgia Cates
#44. And he'd definitely never expected to ever have to tell someone, "All right, no killing and eating me, okay? I'm ready to go.
S.J. Kincaid
#45. I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.
David Sedaris
#46. It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.
Mena Suvari
#47. The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.
Terry Pratchett
#48. It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.
Corbin Bleu
#49. The doors closed, behind him; he turned,
and saw Laurent.
His stomach dropped, a moment of
confused shock
he'd never expected to
see Laurent here.
C.S. Pacat
#50. I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.
Peggy Orenstein
#51. I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.
Frida Kahlo
#52. I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.
Jennifer Garner
#53. He studies me thoughtfully. "You are a beautiful queen, Elisa," he says voice pitched low.
I never expected he would say such a thing. "A month or two of pastries will fix that," I say. Then I smile to show him I mean it flippantly.
His expression does not change. "Even then.
Rae Carson
#54. I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.
Bob Ainsworth
#55. Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected.
Phil Klay
#56. I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win
Duncan Fletcher
#58. You wake up every morning with a smile on your face because you've got a new day you never expected to have. And there's a sense of wonderment. Nothing short of magical.
Dick Cheney
#59. I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
Marian Dragulescu
#60. Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'
Charles McCarry
#62. I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
Gary Clark Jr.
#63. 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
#64. I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But ... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'
Buck Owens
#65. It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected. That
Sabahattin Ali
#66. I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
Lynn Shelton
#67. Marcail sank onto the large slab of rock and let her head drop into her hands. She had known her time with Quinn would be short, she just never expected him to be gone so soon. Too soon.
Donna Grant
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Callan took a deep breath. "I never expected you." He shook his head with an edge of amusement. "You are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler."
"Naw, just a determined woman." She grinned against his shoulder. "I know a good thing when I see it jacking off.
Lora Leigh
#71. When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.
Bob Newhart
#72. He looked back at them, and Eddie saw something he had never expected to see in his life - not even if that life stretched over a thousand years. Roland of Gilead was weeping.
Stephen King
#73. Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected.
Lauren Slater
#74. I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.
A. Zavarelli
#75. I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!
Clay Aiken
#76. Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
Calvin Harris
#77. U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.
Condoleezza Rice
#78. I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don't know how you ever lived without them. How you went about your day and hung out with your friends and fucked other people without having this one important person in your life." Garrett Graham
Elle Kennedy
#80. Life takes turns that we don't expect and even the best of us can end up in a place we never expected.
A Meredith Walters
#81. I never expected anything to be given to me.
Taylor Swift
#82. This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.
Rob Corddry
#83. The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
John Tuley
#84. I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.
David Kirschner
#85. I've said before: If Osama bin Laden was a Christian, Iraq was the Christmas present he always wanted but never expected his parents to give. It validated for the Muslim world virtually all of bin Laden's rhetoric. He had always said the Americans will destroy any strong Muslim regime, and we did.
Michael Scheuer
#86. Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.
Robert Jordan
#87. Look closer. You probably have friends in places you never expected.
Kiera Cass
#88. When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.
Shuji Nakamura
#89. Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.
Mark Ruffalo
#90. The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.
Selena
#91. 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
#92. I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
Patricia McBride
#93. It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy - I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.
Christina Hendricks
#94. I never expected to live this long.
Bob Saget
#95. I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.
Justin Chon
#97. I didn't mean for any of this to happen."
"Any of what?"
"Any of that." He pointed at the bed, as I had. "That was something ... beautiful. Something miraculous and incredible. I never expected that. I never expected to fall for you, Kyrie St. Claire. But I have.
Jasinda Wilder
#98. I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.
Rodman Philbrick
#99. When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.
Anne F. Beiler
#100. I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
Dwight Gooden
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