Never Expect Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

  Michael C. Hall

  Broken Heart, Children, Tragedy

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Errors, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.523, Penguin

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• Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Genius, Recognition, Crosses

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• That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

  Gayle Forman

  Grieving, Competition

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• The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Moon, Thinking, Might

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• 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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• We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Father, Real

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.61, CCEL

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• You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Fire, Flying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1157, Macmillan

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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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• One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

  Robert Greene

  Way, Critics, Behave

  Source: anny-gomes.com

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