Quotes About Expectations

They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define the behaviors that you will tolerate from others, as well as the responses you will have to those behaviors.

Your ultimatum is simple. It's fair. And it's stating your own intentions, not what you hope theirs will be.

I didn't look like a woman who might need twelve condoms.

I'd imagined endless meditations upon sunsets or while staring out across pristine mountain lakes. I'd thought I'd weep tears of cathartic sorrow and restorative joy each day of my journey. Instead, I only moaned, and not because my heart ached. It was because my feet did and my back did and so did the still-open wounds all around my hips.

Yes, I'd been a loving daughter and yes, I'd been there for her when it mattered, but I could have been better. I could have been what I'd begged her to say I was: the best daughter in the world.

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success.

Oh, the dream. The goddamned man + baby dream. Written by the High Commission on Heterosexual Love and Sexual Reproduction and practised by couples across the land, the dream's a bitch if you're a maternally inclined straight female and not living it by the age of thirty-seven - a situation of a spermicidally toxic flavour.

Doing what one wants to do because one wants to do it is hard for a lot of people, but I think it's particularly hard for women. We are, after all, the gender onto which a giant Here to Serve button has been eternally pinned. We're expected to nurture and give by the very virtue of our femaleness, to consider other people's feelings and needs before our own.

love" comes loaded with promises and commitments that are highly fragile and easily broken.

Doing what one wants to do because one wants to do it is hard for a lot of people, but I think it's particularly hard for women. We are, after all, the gender onto which a giant Here to Serve button has been eternally pinned.

Even if you get the dream, you don't know if it will stay true.

I'm tired of being what you want me to be Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface I don't know what you're expecting of me Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes

I think for a lot of people, they think if you're successful, all of a sudden you get some card in the mail that says you're gonna be totally satisfied and happy for the rest of your life. It doesn't happen like that. Life, for me, happens the way it always has ... The only difference is I'm in Linkin Park.

If they didn't have box hockey and baseball cards in heaven, Andy was going to be pretty bored.

Girls are strategic. They will talk about love and romance and all that crap but when it comes to doing the deal they will choose the fattest chicken.

She is too intelligent to be a good daughter-in-law

Some problems in the world seem to exist solely for women. Like not having anything to wear.

In an Indian love marriage, by the time everyone gets on board, one wonders if there is any love left.

Why do people tell girls all this? You ask them to achieve things, but when they do, you can't handle it.

Don't give me your admiration, give me your love. Admiration passes, love endures. Also admiration comes with expectations. Love accepts some flaws.

Crying dads and slapping moms are a routine part of how Indian kids are hammered into shape and manipulated to give up on things they really want

complex vortex of tests, classes, selections and preparations is something every insignificant Indian student like me has to go through to have a shot at a decent life. Else, I could always take the job of Birju the watchman or, if I wanted it simpler, hang myself

Frustration is a sign that somewhere you took things too seriously. Unfairness

The Indian government wants foreign investment but ignore the basic expectations that come with it. Hence