Quotes About Expectations

Why did women think, Vic wondered, even women who had married for love and had had a child in a fairly happy married life, that they would prefer a man who demanded nothing of them sexually? It was a kind of sentimental harking back to virginity a silly, vain fantasy that had no factual validity whatsoever.

He resented the fact that she wasn't and never could be what he wished her to be, a girl who loved him passionately […] A girl like herself, with her face, her ambitions, but a girl who adored him.

If I had been blind, I could have got married, I am pretty sure.

Of course, Travis hadn't known Jim. Maybe he would think she always fell for tall, dark, curly-haired men with gray eyes. That thought sent Lily's glance back to Cade. She had outdone herself on tall and dark this time, but the thick, straight hair brushing Cade's collar didn't have a lick of curl and his eyes were far from gray. What in hell was she going to do? Well

Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

I can't imagine the pressure you must be under to have the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.

How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the best we can hope for from The Way of Christ is the level of Christianity visible in Europe and America today

great part of our growth includes disengaging from the expectations of others.

By emphasizing its screening procedures, instead of its training, management rarely experiences that pleasant surprise of watching a leader emerge from an unlikely recruit.

The type of person who will always be your friend, for as long as you can stand to keep disappointing her.

I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. Meanwhile, my dream for the future was that it wouldn't involve mass extinction and large-scale water shortages and cannibalism.

ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME.

Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner — a corner they never turned. And the source of it all was the human mind.

A young child responds freshly to each moment, without plans or expectations. This is a good way to fight…a good way to live.

David longed for recognition for his good grades, but his Depriving, Perfectionistic parents rarely made even a comment. "I did everything I was supposed to but they never approved. They never asked me how I felt, they just told me how I should react. Rules were more important than feelings." On family car rides, David's parents plunked him in the backseat and talked about him as if he weren't there.

When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in it probably hold for you and you go looking for it. If it's not there, you sense it earlier and leave to go about your business. You just know more about what is, what isn't, and how little time there is to learn the difference.

Soon she would have to wake, tend the fire, serve the men, care for the younger children, and face the end of a childhood she had barely known. Soon she would become the property of a man other than her father, and on that day she would receive the traditional Hindu blessing—May you have eight sons.

I think we underestimate how much of our own lives we devote to trying to meet the expectations of the dead, continued Dave. We don't even think about it, we just do.

I've learned enough this year to know that life may surprise you, but not usually in the ways you imagine.

The more we have at stake, the harder it is to make the leap into writing. The more we think about who's going to read it, what they're going to think, how many copies will be printed, whether this magazine or that magazine will accept it for publication, the further away we are from accomplishing anything alive on the page.

I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.

for that gratitude was no inherent virtue in the nature of man, nor did men always square their dealings by the obligations they had received so much as they did by the advantages they expected.

Not that leaders need to be overly "nice"; the emotional art of leadership includes pressing the reality of work demands without unduly upsetting people.