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Perfection was no protection. Disaster had a way of dropping by just when you least expected it.
— Janet Fitch
I have never met the man who had vision large enough to appreciate my genius," he said simply. "Perhaps it was not to be expected.
— Georgette Heyer
In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.
— Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
Sometimes it seemed like I was the one expected to soldier on while everyone else had a licence to fall apart.
— Anni Taylor
There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.
— Larry McMurtry
It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.
— Morgan Matson
It was not what he expected from a foulmouthed flower of bohemia, but he had a feeling there was both more and less to her than that.
— Michael Chabon
I wanted someone to open doors and lend a helping hand, not because it was expected but because they wanted to. Because they liked me that much.
— Laurel Ulen Curtis
In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.
— P. J. O'Rourke
'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.
— Michael Scheuer
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
— Adam Driver
It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.
— Tananarive Due
I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
— Noam Chomsky
I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next ... But it was always someone else instead of me.
— Dee Dee Ramone
Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
— John Motson
with my nicely butter-laminated dough. It was, as expected, perfect. I marveled again at the way someone as strong as Tarry could so carefully
— Elizabeth A. Reeves
That was the thing about courage, she was discovering. It opened so much more of the world to her than she'd expected. A
— Suzanne Enoch
It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.
— Rita Williams-Garcia
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
— Shawn Johnson
Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
— Bill Vaughan
'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
— Lee Daniels
It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
— Nadia Comaneci
Our word "lord" comes from the Old English hlaford, or "loafward," he who guarded the bread supply - and was expected to share it.
— Ronald Wright
The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see. "Confirmation
— Michael Lewis
Capacity for violence, Rincewind had heard, was unisexual. He wasn't certain what unisex was, but expected that it was what he normally experienced.
— Terry Pratchett
As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.
— Arabella Weir
For there was once a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised ever again.
— Douglas Coupland
He drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.
— William Peter Blatty
If your body was well, you expected it to perform for you, excellently, consistently. If your body was not, your expectations were different.
— Hanya Yanagihara
... it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected. She laughed because she was disappointed ...
— Jane Austen
You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed.
— Alice Hoffman
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
— Charles De Lint
It was some of Solomon's favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn't expected to dance to it.
— James S.A. Corey
Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson
At this command, to Rose's great dismay, six more hands were offered, and it was evident that she was expected to shake them all.
— Louisa May Alcott
She dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.
— Karen Cushman
This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.
— John Ajvide Lindqvist
Over a dozen thaumaturges were stationed around the room. It was almost like the queen expected someone to start trouble.
— Marissa Meyer
What she hadn't expected was how she would feel about ageing. It was as if they were moving even further apart in her mind. The
— Robert Bryndza
Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected.
— Lauren Slater
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
— Leonard Bernstein
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
— Alice Hoffman
I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
— Twyla Tharp
Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.
— Brandon Sanderson
I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
— Ildar Abdrazakov
It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.
— Corbin Bleu
It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.
— Cassandra Clare
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.
— David Sedaris
