Top 100 Quotes About You Expect
#2. Funny how it works out though that when you expect nothing from a person, they might just give you everything you didn't know you wanted.
Jamie Kain
#3. The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.
Stephen Covey
#4. But hope is an elusive thing, always there, but never where you expect it to be. After all, hope's brother is despair, and they're always working together to crush the minds and souls of even the strongest men and women.
David Estes
#5. If you cannot change, why you expect others to change?
Goran Spasa
#6. When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.
Auliq Ice
#7. All human eyes are useless. You see only what you expect to see, and nothing more; and what is the use of sight like that?
Lauren Oliver
#8. It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes.
Marie Jenney Howe
#9. Is it loaded?"
"Yes."
Moving the pillow and carefully holding the murder weapon, he asked, "Expecting trouble?"
"If you expect it, it never comes."
RESOLVE by J.J. Hensley - Chapter 20
J.J. Hensley
#10. When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.
Alfre Woodard
#11. How can you expect to write if you can't cry....Ling
Shirley Wine
#12. In your twenties, you expect to accumulate a graveyard's worth of failed romances. But what you don't count on is having to bury so many treasured friendships alongside them.
Ryan O'Connell
#13. Life is never what you expect it to be. Sex has more to do with salt than sweetness. The sky is white as often as it's blue.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#14. You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.
Iyanla Vanzant
#15. God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.
Maria Shriver
#16. If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
Andy Stanley
#17. But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.
Maurice Thompson
#18. You're a sinister little shit, aren't you?" Victra asks.
"I'm Gold, bitch. What'd you expect? Warm milk and cookies just because I'm pocket sized?
Pierce Brown
#19. Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.
Wallace D. Wattles
#20. Just because you expect something doesn't make it any easier to bear.
Regina Jennings
#21. Don't wait for what you don't have. Use what you have, begin now and what you don't even expect will come alongside with excess of what you expect. Go, make it happen.
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. You have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake!
Gideon raised one eyebrow. "What did you expect?" he asked, amused. "You thought I was an android put together by Uncle Falk and Mr. George?
Kerstin Gier
#23. If you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?
H.D.
#24. Your success, more than you expect, will be telling - of - who your true friends are.
Kamini Arichandran
#25. I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.
Janina Gavankar
#27. When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
Kangana Ranaut
#28. Colin Meads is the kind of player you expect to see emerging from a ruck with the remains of a jockstrap between his teeth.
Tom O'Reilly
#29. Very often you expect one thing from looking at the outside of it, but when you open it, there's something else entirely.
Lemony Snicket
#30. If you expect the worst from people, that's exactly what you'll get.
Michelle Hodkin
#31. Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Orison Swett Marden
#32. When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that you may reach the distant target on the ground.
Sun Tzu
#33. You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.
Janet Morris
#34. It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized ... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to ... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.
Dan Castellaneta
#36. Expect the unexpected, they say, but once the unexpected happens, the last thing you expect is that it will happen again.
Paul Auster
#37. I don't know what to say to you expect that it tore my heart out of my body saying goodbye to you.
Vita Sackville-West
#38. Expect everything to happen for your benefit yet do not insist on how it must be experienced. Allow yourselves to be surprised. Remember that what you expect with your physical mind is the least you can be offered by your all-knowing-Self.
Raphael Zernoff
#39. If you decide to help someone
And you expect something in return
Don't fool yourself...
That's "business", not KINDNESS.
Jose N. Harris
#40. What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
Jean-Paul Sartre
#41. Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz?" he asked. "I have already learned not to speak to strangers." "Then I will introduce myself and we will be strangers no longer. I am Dillamond." "I am disinclined to know you.
Gregory Maguire
#42. When everything you love has been stolen from you, sometimes all you have left is revenge.Sometimes, the innocent get hurt. But one by one, the guilty will pay. Nothing ever goes exactly as you expect. And mistakes are life and death. Collateral damage is inescapable.
Emily Thorne
#43. He shook with rage. 'Look what you have done, you vandal. You have destroyed everything!'
'What did you expect me to do? Bend over and wait for the broom-handle?
Stephen Arnott
#44. In an odd way it was comforting to know that people you imagine are oversexed, misogynistic pigs are, in fact, oversexed, misogynistic pigs. It made me realize that sometimes people are exactly who you expect them to be.
Olivia Munn
#45. I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know ...
Thomas Jefferson
#46. I'm going to close out this book with some bad news. One day you're going to die, and you can't predict when that will be. All I can guarantee is that it will be sooner than you expect.
Roosh V
#47. In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
Naomi Weisstein
#48. I think a lot of actors, we underprepare emotionally for how intense pilot season can be. And we underprepare the people around us, our support system. So when it starts taking up more time than you expect it to, we feel guilty.
Autumn Reeser
#49. If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran
#50. Don't give your heart to him, Shay," Darby says softly. "Ford won't keep it safe. No one ever kept his heart safe growing up and he doesn't know how to treat anyone any better. It's not his fault he's not a good man, but it'll be your fault if you expect him to be one.
Bijou Hunter
#51. At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.
Shirley Hazzard
#52. Oh, come on. A vamp marrying a human gets the fanged ones all upset, and Eve made herself look like the ultimate fang-anger to all the humans by putting a ring on one, so what did you expect exactly? Flowers and parades? This is Texas. We're still figuring out how to spell tolerance.
Rachel Caine
#53. How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?
Joseph Stalin
#54. In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
Renny Harlin
#55. Things rarely happen the way you expect them to. But that doesn't mean they don't happen the way they are supposed to.
Ella Fox
#56. The thing is, how do you expect to fuck dirty if you can't even talk it?
Julia Devlin
#57. In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.
Arsene Wenger
#58. There would be Jews in the pageant?" I asked him.
"Certainly-" he said, "thousands of them."
"May I ask, sir," I said, "where do you expect to find any Jews after the war?
Kurt Vonnegut
#59. Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realizing you've got to make your own way.
Saoirse Ronan
#60. You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.
Stanley Gault
#62. I hate phrases like that. "Jesus vocab," El would call them. Things you learn in church that are hammered into you until they're so normal that you expect everyone else who doesn't go to church to know what you mean.
Julie Murphy
#63. If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
Seneca The Younger
#64. This isn't what I expected when I found out you were sleeping in the house."
"What did you expect?"
"I expected you'd come over here because you couldn't wait an extra minute to have fabulous, mind-blowing sex with me.
Charlaine Harris
#65. When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
Tori Amos
#66. In Vegas, everyone lets their hair down a little bit and it's a little looser. You expect to see some different stuff and hear some different stuff. Even the red carpet is different here.
Dierks Bentley
#67. Father can be the person you most hate and most fear, yes, but deep down you expect that he'll be the one to save you.
Julianna Baggott
#68. Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.
Rick Warren
#70. Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.
Vernon Baker
#71. Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.
Noam Chomsky
#72. The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.
Andy Stanley
#73. Remember that the interest is paid on the face value of the bond, so if you can buy a 5 per cent bond at just 10 per cent of its face value you can earn a handsome yield of 50 per cent. In essence, you expect a return proportional to the risk you are prepared to take.
Niall Ferguson
#74. Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
Seth Godin
#75. Son, in life you do not fight battles because you expect to win...
...you fight them merely because they need to be fought.
-Snagglepuss
Mark Russell
#76. Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth - you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers.
Robert A. Heinlein
#77. Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.
Victoria Osteen
#78. I keep spare business shirts. In case of emergencies." Emergencies? "Do you expect to have jizz on your shirt often?
N.R. Walker
#79. A vicious circle develops in which the people around you expect you to be there for them all the time and comply with their wishes.
Auliq Ice
#80. Don't expect life to serve you what you expect. Just enjoy the buffet.
Manoj Vaz
#81. It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.
Mark Obmascik
#82. If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen
#83. Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?
Jeff Lindsay
#84. You expect me to do everything for you?'
' No. Just dress me. Please.
Rachel Caine
#85. The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.
Julianne Moore
#86. How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy? Simple: the atomic reaction you expect isn't taking place, the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength.
Julian Barnes
#87. The point of wisdom is when the heaven takes you higher than what you expect of what you know.
Auliq Ice
#88. How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?
William Golding
#89. In life; when you expect good to happen, the bad happens and when you see the bad coming, then comes the good'
'Never be overconfident about your expectations
Peter Perry
#90. And this is the world you saved. Did you expect it to be different, suddenly? Did you expect it to be grateful?
Kate Milford
#91. We do live in a world with lunatic and mentally corrupted people, and still you expect I shouldn't smash some faces.
M.F. Moonzajer
#92. The more that you expect, the less happy you will be
because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful
Dennis Prager
#93. You can't wake up miserable and expect something outside yourself to change that mood, you have to be willing to change that mood so you expect the best from your outside world.
Nikki Rowe
#94. Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.
Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
#95. How can you expect me to be perfect ... when I am full of contradictions.
Abraham Ibn Ezra
#96. If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
Sylvia Plath
#97. We eat and fuck and try to survive. That's what we've been turned into. What the fuck do you expect me to do to?
Zannie Adams
#98. you seldom hear, at a funeral, a friend of the deceased saying, "What do you expect, she wore L'Heure Bleue,
Luca Turin
#99. Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a refining fire to consume your dross
a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#100. Being in a relationship doesn't entitle you to anything. You don't get what you expect, you get what you create.
Steve Maraboli
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