Quotes About Never Expected

“Last night with Rhys. It was ... the first time in years that I felt so loved. For what I am, for my faults and my virtues, for my past and my future. I haven't had that with a man since ... since I had it with you. And I never expected to have it again.”

— Elizabeth George

“Hey Clark', he said.'Tell me something good'. I stared out of the window at the bright-blue Swiss sky and I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other. And I told him of the adventures they had, the places they had gone, and the things I had seen that I had never expected to. I conjured for him electric skies and iridescent seas and evenings full of laughter and silly jokes. I drew a world for him, a world far from a Swiss industrial estate, a world in which he was still somehow the person he had wanted to be. I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility.”

— Jojo Moyes

“I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Whether or not what you do has the effect you want, it will have three at least you never expected, and one of those usually unpleasant.”

— Robert Jordan

“Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view. Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence.”

— David Graeber

“I didn't mean for any of this to happen."
"Any of what?"
"Any of that." He pointed at the bed, as I had. "That was something ... beautiful. Something miraculous and incredible. I never expected that. I never expected to fall for you, Kyrie St. Claire. But I have.”

— Jasinda Wilder

“Liz, I didn't expect to fall for you, not like this ... not so completely. And I never expected for you to fall for me too. But here we are. Let's see where this goes. Let's see how far left there is to fall.”

— Rachel Higginson

“I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.”

— Patricia McBride

“She never expected gross perfidy from the meek and mild." Mathilde saw her own face reflected in the window, but no, it was a barn owl on a low branch in the cherry trees. She could barely master herself. She had never expected this. These women. Such kindness. Their eyes shining in the dim room. They saw her. She didn't know why, but they saw her and they loved her even still. "There's”

— Lauren Groff

“I never expected to be anybody important.”

— Elvis Presley

“I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.”

— Ruben Studdard

“I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.”

— Alfredo Stroessner

“He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.”

— Robert Battle

“I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But ... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'”

— Buck Owens

“I was stunned. I'm not sure why. I think I just never expected him to be importante enough to make any significant changes in his life, but of course, he doesn't know that he's only a minor character in my life. He's the star of his own life, and I'm the minor character. and fair enough too.”

— Liane Moriarty

“I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.”

— Stanislas Wawrinka

“People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!”

— Mark Hamill

“I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.”

— Mark Bradford

“Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'”

— Charles McCarry

“We never expected the show to be this great. We think it is successful because kids can identify.”

— Thuy Trang

“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.”

— Noam Chomsky

“How weak am I, that I could shed tears at this reception! I who have never experienced anything else; who have never expected anything else.”

— Charles Dickens

“I'm a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a great rejuvenator, helped me to live down my image - this sex symbol thing. It helps me connect with myself.”

— Raquel Welch

“This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.”

— Rob Corddry

“When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.”

— John Barrasso

“Laurelyn, I never expected to love you but I do ... with every fiber of my being.”

— Georgia Cates

“I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.”

— Will Rogers

“Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.”

— Mark Ruffalo

“I never said I wasn't Black ... I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.”

— Raven-Symone

“Life takes turns that we don't expect and even the best of us can end up in a place we never expected.”

— A. Meredith Walters

“Did you never think of children then? Ours?" His voice was thick with emotion. "I never expected in the whole of my life that God would be so generous as to give me you. I did not think to ask for more.”

— Deanna Raybourn

“You are everything I never expected. Never anticipated. Everything I never knew I'd need.”

— A.L. Jackson

“Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.”

— Eric S. Raymond

“Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it to happen again, this would be enough.Time sheltered their embrace, enfolding them within a summer scented capsule that felt endless and theirs alone. The fragrance of grass and sunlight and nearby water sweetened each breath. Theirs was the music of birds ans the lazy buzz of insects and the beating of two hearts. Yes, she thought, she didn't need more. This would be enough.”

— Maggie Osborne

“I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here.”

— Ronnie Van Zant

“I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.”

— Marian Dragulescu

“The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.”

— Selena

“I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.”

— Stan Wawrinka

“I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year.”

— Chris Bosh

“It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!”

— Kathryn Tucker Windham

“I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [ Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a different host every week and different musicians. I always thought, "This is great. I never expected to get this in the first place, so I'm just happy being here."”

— Kevin Nealon

“When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.”

— Mark Twain

“I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more”

— Alan Greenspan

“I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.”

— Alan Rickman

“Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos ... no confusion ... no lawsuits ... no violence ... no going to jail ...”

— Mike Tyson

“I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“I never expected anything to be given to me.”

— Taylor Swift

“Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat ... But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.”

— Tom Hanks

“I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.”

— Gloria Steinem