Quotes About Expectations

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

And a hopeless, angry man is astoundingly predictable.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

I know that for every mother, there is always the possibility of three in your relationship with your daughter. You, your daughter the way she is, and your daughter the way you want her to be. I learned the hard way ten years ago that that kind of control is an illusion and a barrier.

I wanted perfection. But it turns out, here on earth, we don't get perfection; we get people.

For so many years, she'd followed a prescription that she'd trusted would result in a beautiful life. Girls don't fight back. They don't get angry. They don't demand things—especially not from men. They are loyal and faithful and quiet and trusting. But slowly, surely, all of those rules had unraveled. It was time to release. To let go. This was why she'd come here.

Boys don't go for fat girls. They talk about wanting 'real women', but what they mean is big tits. Not thighs, not bellies, not fat bums. They want skin and bone.

Those who marry to escape something usually find something else.

in the mechanics of the ordinary, working week. Sundays could feel very threadbare, and raw. Why could he not relax and enjoy them like other men who took a pint or two after Mass before falling asleep at the fire with the newspaper, having eaten a plate of dinner?

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Every guy seems nice until he's not.

I want a tutor," Layla said. "It would make doing homework so much easier." "Me too," said Kaitlyn. "If Layla gets one, I get one." "No daughter of mine will ever have a tutor," Dad said. "What if we're failing a course?" asked Layla. His graying eyebrows drew together. "If you fail a single course, young lady, we will pull you out of school and get you a job scrubbing toilets for the rest of your life.

Good guys are either taken or gay

Most of us women like men, you know it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

Having five cats around the house helps me have no expectations. They are not goal-fulfilling creatures in any human sense. There is little one can expect of a cat.

My expectations closed the world to me.

Eu sempre disse a mim mesma que o amor que os outros têm pela gente cria mais deveres do que o amor que a gente tem pelos outros.

I said to a friend: -- Like has always asked too much of me. She replied: -- But don't forget that you also ask too much of life.

Federico Ozanan añade: «Hay dos clases de orgullo: el que está contento de sí mismo, que es el más corriente y el menos peligroso; y el que está descontento de sí, porque esperaba mucho de él mismo y se ha visto defraudado en su esperanza.

alguien depende de la amabilidad de un extraño es que quienes lo rodean no son gente con la que ha podido contar.

Because the foundations for loneliness begin in the dreamscapes you create. Their resemblance to reality reflects disappointment first.

I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly.

Highway: Just because we're holding hands doesn't mean we'll be taking warm showers together until the wee hours of the morning." Sgt Gunnery Highway to Stitch Jones in Heartbreak Ridge