Quotes About Expectations

I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything

Analysis] has helped, but not as much as I've wanted. Years ago, I remember, I brought my clarinet into the repair shop, and the guy took two weeks and put new pads on and everything. When I went in, I said, 'Thank you, but am I going to sound better?' And he said, 'Yes, you will sound better, but not as much as you'd like to.

being a misanthropist has its saving grace—people can never disappoint you.

Marriage is the death of hope

Porque hasta cuando sabes que no puedes confiar en nadie te topas con que tienes que confiar.

But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.

this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations...

Just because men and women of our era don't live up to the myths doesn't mean no one ever has, or ever will again.

this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.

Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.

Sabes por qué podía hacerlo? Porque nunca nadie le había dicho que no podía. Nunca nadie le había dicho que debía estar muriéndose en algún asilo de ancianos. Uno vive según sus propias expectativas, amigo. Como

Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you'll get more than you ever imagined.

Eric creía que lo peor que uno podía hacer con un corredor a media carrera era darle falsas esperanzas. Lo que te hace tensar los músculos es aquello que no esperas; pero mientras sepas a qué atenerte, puedes relajarte y reducir o aumentar la intensidad según lo requiera el esfuerzo.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.

I use their expectations against them. That will be their weakness. Not mine. Let them all underestimate me. Let them think they have the upper hand over the little girl. Let them relax while the adrenaline leaks out of their systems. Let them believe they're closing their grips on a shrinking violet. And when their guard is down and their pride is rising... let me kick their butts up around their ears.

But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire

We spend so much of our lives waiting to be ambushed by heartbreak. Why couldn't we be ambushed by joy?

Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

If a lady should do this, Raisa wondered, should a man do the same? Is he required to?

That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.