Top 100 You 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. Sometimes that which is most precious can be found where you would least expect to.
David Gaider
#10. Remember that sometimes you find your destiny in the places you least expect it.
Sarah Holman
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Are people being the least you expect of them, or the best they expect themselves to be?
Ron Kaufman
#14. May love find you when you least expect, where you least expect.
Elif Shafak
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
Maggie Kuhn
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. You know what love is? Maureen said to me that day...it's what you least expect.
Alice Hoffman
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!
Donald Glover
#40. You know what love is? ... It's what you least expect.
Alice Hoffman
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. All my shoes somehow magically disappeared. But I'm not concerned. They'll show up sometime - even when you least expect it.
Luna Lovegood
#44. 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
#45. Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast.
In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
Ovid
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. the worst happens when you least expect it
Dean Koontz
#56. The motivation sometimes comes when you least expect it. I try to keep an open mind.
DJ Quik
#57. If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.
Stan Smith
#58. 119. Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Personalities change when you least expect them
G.M.
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.
Pablo Picasso
#66. Love hits you when you least expect it, grabs you, sucks you in whole, and twists you around until you could hardly breathe. Love hurts like a sucker punch, that's both glorious and beautiful. Falling for Summer was like that for me, every time.
Kailin Gow
#68. I think when love sneaks up on you, when it grabs onto you when you least expect it, maybe that's more of a sign that it's real. That it's meant to be and nothing could stop the two of you from falling for each other.
Nyrae Dawn
#69. A bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you least expect it, said Espinoza.
Roberto Bolano
#70. Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it.
Catherine Lowell
#71. Sometimes when you least expect it, hope wiggles into your heart.
Lynn Plourde
#72. Sometimes, when you'd least expect it, the grief would chop your legs out from under you.
Emmy Laybourne
#73. In fact some of the best ideas come when you least expect them,
Edward Frenkel
#74. You are so full of it. You think we're just going to skip away with you into the sunset?"
"No, I expect you to fucking prance, and you're going to do it with a smile & the least amount of bitching possible
Alexandra Bracken
#75. Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.
Gina Greenlee
#76. Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
Og Mandino
#77. People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.
Edward Frenkel
#78. It seems now that the place where you see
the most obvious censorship is on college campuses
the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
Alan Charles Kors
#79. I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret.
Kate Messner
#80. As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.
John Bingham
#81. Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.
John C. Maxwell
#82. Time doesn't heal as much as it buries things in the undergrowth of your brain, where they lie in wait to ambush you when you least expect it.
Jonathan Tropper
#83. You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!
Emilia Clarke
#84. If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
Cormac McCarthy
#85. The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.
Eden Phillpotts
#86. Love happens sublimely, serenely and accidentally! It will happen when you least expect it to!
Avijeet Das
#87. Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
Tom Stoppard
#88. Life inspires me. Life is unfair, unkind and unforeseeable. It knocks you down when you least expect it.
Lisa De Jong
#89. You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)
Paulo Coelho
#90. Just when you least expect it,
enkantos will always have a way of surprising you.
Arnold Arre
#91. Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it ...
Dean Koontz
#92. No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.
Charles R. Swindoll
#93. Anything that's worth having is worth fighting for. Love is a strange thing. It shows up when you least expect it and defies expectation.
H.M. Ward
#94. Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you
Donna Ball
#95. These random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.
Khaled Hosseini
#96. ...all of the effort creates beauty, something so powerful that it combines all senses, all emotions, encouraging the mind and body to experience it simultaneously. Then the mind stores it all together like treasures to reopen throughout life, sometimes when you least expect it.
J.M. Miller
#97. What I'm saying here is sometimes the one you love introduces you to the person inside - the real one who you're close to, you don't even recognize her. Sometimes the one you love knows you better than you know yourself. They bring out the best in us when we least expect it.
Kendall Grey
#98. At least you pay for them."
"I could support a foundling hospital, and you would applaud my virtue."
"I didn't expect you to populate your own orphanage," she said.
Eloisa James
#99. Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.
Gerald Hausman
#100. One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it.
J.P. Delaney
