Quotes About Expectations

You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.

By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

Why couldn't she have given him a sultry laugh as she'd seen women do in movies instead of giggling like some enchanted, mindless school girl?

I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know.

Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

Our own system of trying to guess what or how much a child's mind can assimilate results in cross purposes, misunderstanding, disappointments, anger and a general loss of harmony.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all. But it consoled me in a way too; I could see that if I got them all read and had no more surprises in that line, I would have been sorry.

Theoretically, there is always a better place for a person to live, better work to do, a better spouse to wed, better friends to have. But then this person must meet herself coming beck. Theoretically, there always is a better inhabitant of this place, a better member of this community, a better worker, spouse, and friend than she is. This surely describes one of the circles of Hell, and who hasn't traveled around it a time or two?

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn't shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.