Quotes About Expectations

Babe, nothing's been happening in my bed, and no one's going to see your underpants in this meeting unless you go goofy.

Sometimes I find human nature to be real disappointing," Lula said. "I guess that's why God made metallic extensions and pink hair dye. Sometimes you gotta compensate.

Sometimes I find human nature to be real disappointing

It's like they had early aspirations that didn't turn out and eventually they settled into a comfortable undemanding existence.

I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or beat up? A man's world meant places men could go but not women. It meant they had more money,and didn't have kids, not the way women did, to look after every second. And it meant that women loved them more than they loved the women, that they could want something with all their hearts, and then not.

Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

He'd loved her, he had. And he knew she loved him, he knew it! But it wasn't enough. She couldn't have imagined such a thing was possible. Love wasn't enough

Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.

He just didn't want to see how damaged she was. As long as she didn't show him, that was all he asked for. A good show.

beautiful girls have certain advantages.

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here.

It scared me when she said perfect. Perfect was always too much to ask.

Every hoodwinked widow, every deceived lover, every betrayed friend, every subject of writing knows on some level what is in store for him, and remains in the relationship anyway, impelled by something stronger than his reason.

It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship.

Since the beginning of time, we have expected our leaders to be supermen, unlike mere mortals. We want them to be much greater than us so that we can look up to them.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my sitcom mother - she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry.

I feel L.A. is unlike anything I've experienced. It's nice when I can relate to people, but that's not very often. I know they're out there, but I feel that there's a very big pressure here to be seen as being gorgeous and special. I don't think there's the same pressure in Australia.

For my book, 'Age of Ambition,' I spent time documenting, among other things, the trials of young Chinese strivers who are bombarded by pressures unlike those that their parents faced.

Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'

Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.

In South, the actresses are expected to be fuller, unlike Bollywood. The sensibilities are totally different.

Unlike most kids in Japan, I didn't have a dream. I wasn't ambitious.