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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

Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else. — Alan Bennett

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 was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time. — Jeff Ross

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

People viewed me as an adult but I was just shit.
I always expected adulthood to happen, to make, like, a popping or dinging sound when it did. — Sam Pink

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

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word. — Horace Dyer

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

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected. — Pawan Mishra

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

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts. — Emma Bull

When he began to move, it wasn't with the urgency she expected given their rushed beginnings. It was with a slow deliberation that would destroy her. — Cherrie Lynn

This man was truly like a scorpion, a poisonous sting when one least expected it. — Anne Stuart

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

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well. — Sarah Dessen

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

Somehow she felt hollow, as though her heart was wrenched away from her. She didn't realize it. She hadn't expected it. She loved Fallon. — Kailin Gow

it turns the shower scene was a lot harder to film than i expected — Jeff Kinney

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

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected. — Horace

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful. — Daryl Hall

The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored . — John Wallace

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself. — Brandon Sanderson

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be. — John Cheever

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 hard to know what direction to take when you suddenly found yourself in a future different from the one you'd expected to be in the day before. — Dexter Palmer

People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life. — Julia Quinn

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 idealism that made him so angry. He expected too much out of life. — Milan Kundera

That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness. — Alice Hoffman

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

That damn mara was an emotional ninja, sneaking up on your heart when you least expected it. — Rachel Vincent

Women wanted a new deal, and they expected him to know, without being told, what the deal was, and to agree to it without negotiation. — Ken Follett