Never Expect Quotes - Page 2

• We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

  Ali Smith

  Book, Reading, Believe

  "Ali Smith". Book by Ali Smith, therumpus.net. 2012.

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• Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Groups, Paleontology, Earth

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• I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about what is desired and makes the wait more enjoyable.]

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Expectations, Optimism, Waiting

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• Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

  Margaret Cho

  Hate, Believe, Trying

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• You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

  Werner Klemperer

  Play, People, Littles

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• You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

  Alison McGhee

  Powerful, People, Expectations

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• There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

  Andres Iniesta

  Overcoming, Body, Moments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Men, Giving, Liberty

  Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Voltairine De Cleyre (2004). “Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind”, p.249, University of Michigan Press

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• In holding your antagonist, therefore, you should hold him lightly as if your arms were nothing but chains which connect you with him, so that you may stretch or contract them at will when necessary, and pull or push him in any direction you choose. If you pull your opponent or apply your tricks on him by putting from the beginning too much strength in your arms, then you are going to contest with him by means of your power and against the principles of Judo. In doing so, you can never expect to succeed in your contest.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Mean, Principles, May

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• You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.

  Cristin Milioti

  Curves, Balls, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

  Anna Brackett

  Fate, Acceptance, Games

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• Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Sex, Analysts

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• Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

  Washington Allston

  Men, Vanity, Justice

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

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• Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Women, Thinking, Long

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• They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Thinking, Needs, Return

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• I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

  Jack Handey

  Hate, War, Deep Thought

  "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey, Berkley Publishing Group, 1992.

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• I always told my team two things: Never expect them to give you anything and always expect them to make the next shot.

  Beth Daniel

  Team, Two, Giving

  "If It's Solheim Cup Week, You Can Bet Beth Daniel Will Be There". Interview With Melanie Hauser, www.espn.com. September 16, 2015.

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• Well, it might have been if I'd had success earlier in life, but having success that much later meant I was far more grounded when it came. The last few years of my life have just been surreal and after a lifetime of disappointment and heartache and rejection, I still don't believe this is all actually happening. I'm extremely grateful for my success - I just never expect it to last and my motto, if I have one, is just put your head down and do the job.

  Steve Carell

  Jobs, Disappointment, Grateful

  "Dan In Real Life - Steve Carell interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Real, Hard Work, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

  Brian May

  Guitar, Views, Way

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• If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough salt water to start an opposition ocean to the Atlantic and Pacific, with enough left over to run the Great Salt Lake out of business. But I wish to say I never shed any of these tears personally, because I am never in love, and furthermore, barring a bad break, I never expect to be in love, for the way I look at it love is strictly the old phedinkus, and I tell the little guy as much.

  Damon Runyon

  Running, Ocean, Love Is

  Damon Runyon (2008). “Guys and Dolls and Other Writings”, p.216, Penguin

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• I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

  Ned Colletti

  Player, Want, I've Learned

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• One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find among living species all those which are found in the fossil state, and yet one may not assume that any species has really been lost or rendered extinct.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Believe, Science, Organization

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• One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Gratitude, Rely Upon, Sovereign

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• Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

  Mason Cooley

  People, Dull, Rascals

  "City Aphorisms: Thirteenth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1994.

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