Quotes About Expectations

Vows, love, promises, confidences, gratitude, how queerly they read after a while!

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married It is an honor that I dream not of

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.

Tis ten to one this play can never please All that are here. Some come to take their ease And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear, W' have frighted with our trumpets.

Princes and Counties! Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly Count Comfect; a sweet gallant, surely! O! that I were a man for his sake, or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

Clever? who said that we all had to be clever? But we have to have courage. The whole position of women is what it is to-day, because so many of us have followed the line of least resistance, and have sat down placidly in a little provincial town, waiting to get married. No wonder that the men have thought that this is all that we are good for.

Sometimes our best isn't good enough. SOmetimes we must do what is required

Life seemed to be teaching him that the satisfaction of most appetites carried in them the seeds of frustration, that it was the common delusion of all men to imagine otherwise.

Seeking perfection, Ross . . . in life it's dangerous, for it makes the less than perfect seem less than enough. Time is not indefinite.

Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed and defective?

Yes. Oh yes. I told him Caroline wanted to break the journey down here to be in Bodmin during the election, but Caroline has written him also, so it was no news. Like her to ask me to ask her uncle and then to write herself!" "She's only a girl. Be patient with her, Unwin. You'll need patience. She's temperamental and wayward. And there are others will think her a good catch beside yourself.

Perhaps one aspect of arrogance lies in not being willing to accept what life sometimes expects one to accept.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The

It's ridiculous what little the French do!

Soñamos, ¡pero tan negligentemente, tan a la ligera! «Quiero ser un pájaro», dice este o aquel. Pero si el sumiso destino lo convirtiese en un pavo, se sentiría desencantado.

He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

PoszedÅ'em do modnego sklepu Ostende i kupiÅ'em parÄ™ bucików ?óÅ'tych, które okazaÅ'y siÄ™ za ciasne. WróciÅ'em wiÄ™c do sklepu i wymieniÅ'em tÄ™ parÄ™ na innÄ…, tego samego fasonu i numeru i w ogóle identycznÄ… pod ka?dym wzglÄ™dem, która okazaÅ'a siÄ™ równie ciasna. Bywa, i? sobÄ… zdumiewam siebie.

But perhaps I took the serious-minded too seriously and overestimated the maturity of the mature.

he must have thought: this is a young fellow and a stupid German besides - that's just how all French speak of the Germans - he will be quite content with this - but the stupid German was not content - and didn't accept the money either (...).

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.