Quotes About Expectations

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After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they'd actually made some sort of choice.

From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.

So long as a man appeared to be respectable he could do as he pleased.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

I've never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I've got all three, and it's never helped me.

You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops.

A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so

Even unconditional love has it's conditions.

There might be a problem if your husband carries condoms and you're on the pill.

Her boyfriend gives her a Mercedes, [her friends] say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But her boyfriend gives her a diamond, they say, 'Oh, he's serious.' It's not just the gift of love-it's the gift of commitment. She's not jumping up and down because she got a diamond ring but because she got a guy! There are those who say you don't need diamonds. I say they're right. Just like you don't need sex.

Since we all want better leaders, we should not lower our standards when we select women, but we should raise them when we select men.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

When I get to heaven, I will be amazed at three things. I will be amazed at those I thought would be there who are not there, those I did not think would be there who are there, and the fact that I am there at all.

You are ready to date and marry when you are becoming the person that your ideal mate is praying about meeting.

That's the problem with friends sometimes, they invest in who you were or seem to have been, capture you and you're through. Forget what you had in mind about changing, growing, developing. Got you typecasted.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Later on, Daisy let him take a shower, because he had been nice and because she had kind of enjoyed it. Then he was gone. He said he was going to show up in the morning and take her out for breakfast, but she blew him off. Another weirdo in her life, she didn't need. He was probably just bullshitting anyway. Daisy cleaned herself up, mailed herself a kiss in the mirror, and hit the streets.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

Obeying the will of God takes priority over satisfying cultural expectations.

Or, at least, he wasn't sure she was willing to marry Jim Chee as he currently existed—a just-plain cop and a genuine sheep-camp Navajo as opposed to the more romantic and politically correct Indigenous Person.

I'm getting to be like a white man," she said. "I'm getting in a hurry for you to tell me what this is all about.

you truly want to make some serious changes in your life then you must start by raising your standards.

I wish you would stick more closely to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough already.