Quotes about expectation
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“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.”

Mary Roach book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Way, Lying, Time, Dead

“Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.”

Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright

As quoted in The Writer's Quotation Book : A Literary Companion (1980) by James Charlton, p. 44

People, Question

“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 (1973) Pakistani writer

Source: Kartography

Friendship, Thinking

“… you expect me to fall on my back with my legs spread."
"Not necessarily…. You can fall on your hands and knees if you prefer. Or against the wall. Or on the kitchen counter. I suppose I might let you be on top, if you make it worth my while.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”

Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) American playwright

Graduation

“I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Thinking

“I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

“It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Ain't She Sweet

Family

“Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.”

Terry Goodkind book The Pillars of Creation

Source: The Pillars of Creation

Personality

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Love, Life, Girl, Problem

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Letter, written in collaboration with John Gay, to William Fortescue (23 September 1725).
A similar remark was made in a letter to John Gay (16 October 1727): "I have many years magnify'd in my own mind, and repeated to you a ninth Beatitude, added to the eight in the Scripture: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Variant: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Context: "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth Beatitude which a man of wit (who, like a man of wit, was a long time in gaol) added to the eighth.

Disappointment

“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.
As you may expect, someone has died.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Way, Tree, Training

“Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

People

“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

http://www.familyquotes4u.com/2009/03/family-quotes-page-8.html <br class="br">(In Brilla Mare Ariake ads).

Family

“My leg hurts," the soldier whined.

"Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Lost Stories

Hurt

“Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Source: Sudden Death

“My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.”

Georgette Heyer book These Old Shades

Source: These Old Shades

People, Housing

“we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Life, Victory

“i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Jem" I have an assignmation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone.

Tessa: Goodness. If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.
Jem choked on his tea.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Tea

“One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

People

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

People

“It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

Women, World, Way, Idea

“And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

Love, Fate, Faith, Thinking

“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“Is Tyson okay?' I asked.
The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Question, Cry

“He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.”

Patricia Briggs book Hunting Ground

Source: Hunting Ground

Love, Waiting

“these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.”

Lev Grossman (1969) American novelist, journalist

World

“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

World, Nature, Loneliness

“Garrett ran a hand through his hair. “How can you stay the head of the Stake-Out team? Isn’t that a conflict of interest?”
“You expect me to stake myself?” Sean growled.
“I’ve got a nice, big one you can borrow,” Gregori suggested.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Sexiest Vampire Alive

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”

John Irving book A Widow for One Year

Source: A Widow for One Year

Love, Life, People, Feeling

“If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

Time

“You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much."

-Acheron”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: No Mercy

“Always expect something to go wrong," he told him. "Believe me, if you're wrong, you're not dissapointed. If you're right, you're ready for it.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

“Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude,
“you know I love you dearly—”
“Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect
nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in
that manner?”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: It's in His Kiss

Love

“What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.”

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist

Source: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau

People

“How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him”

Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist

God

“I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

Death, Time

“There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.”

Emma Thompson (1959) British actress and writer

Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Pain

“My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Health

“The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.”

Sigmund Freud book Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

Life, Men, Pain, Youth

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist

People, Way, Nature

“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

People

“I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.”

Jeff Lindsay book Dexter in the Dark

Source: Dexter in the Dark

“Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands…”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

“Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Weather

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

Quoted in Observer (London, June 12, 1977).

“When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.”

John Maynard Keynes book The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace

“There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

World, Beauty

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor

“I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

“Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.”

Juliet Marillier book Son of the Shadows

Source: Son of the Shadows

“A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

Marriage, Partnership

“I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

Feeling

“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

World, Science, Baby

“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Hope, Problem

“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Books

“And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

“If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Variant: If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
Source: Vanishing Acts

“… I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Life, Way

“I've read your summary."
"And?"
"It's not incompetent."
Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Reading, Heart