Quotes About Expectations

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Pygmalion: "A comedy about a man who turns a girl into a lady, but in doing so overlooks the woman.

Of a young actress: "She is pretty, and tactfully concerned that the optical pleasure she provides shall not be disturbed by technical requirements any more than necessary.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation.

Girls usually have a paper m'chÈ face on their wedding day.

Mothers sound so stupid when they praise their daughters to the skies.

Trudno zadowoli? jednocze?nie wszystkich i sam? siebie. Wol? zacz?? od siebie...

Dans le « programme des examens » les choses ne se passent pas comme dans la vie.

Je me demande, entre parenthèses, pour qui vous la gardez? Pour un employé à deux mille quatre qui l'épousera et qui lui fera quatre enfants en trois ans?

Dtui with her laundry-bin build was off the scale. There were no suitors queuing at her door. They wouldn't have to dig deep to find her kindness and humour, but they didn't even bring a spade.

Los buscadores de oro mucha tierra cavan y encuentran poco

As a negotiator, take some risk, break free from the precedent of your past experiences, challenge your assumptions, raise your aspiration level, and increase your expectations.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

they derive much of their sense of identity from their title and employer and that such overidentification with any institution can lead to stunted growth in other arenas. Far into our careers, we can remain the victims of other people's values and expectations.

Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

I'm often told that those who don't like themselves set high expectations for themselves, but ? think people who say that don't really understand how painful it is.

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

It is not written that great men shall be happy men.

He had only thought, and Wolsey had only thought, that the Emperor and Spain would be against it. Only the Emperor. He smiles in the dark, hands behind his head. He doesn't say which people, but waits for Liz to tell him. 'All women,' she says. 'All women everywhere in England. All women who have a daughter but not a son. All women who have lost a child. All women who have lost any hope of having a child. All women who are forty.

Men will tell you that they are so in love with you that it is making them ill. They will say they have stopped eating and sleeping. They say that they fear unless they can have you they will die. Then, the moment you give in, they get up and walk away and lose all interest. The next week they will pass you by as if they don't know you.

Give me time," she said mockingly. "That's the anthem of the married man. Give me time while I make my excuses, give me time while I sort out my head. Just another week, just another decade, just till my wife understands. Be reasonable, give me time, just till my children grow up, give me time. And what do you suppose time will give to me?

John More, Gregory Cromwell, what have we done to our sons? Made them into idle young gentlemen—but who can blame us for wanting for them the ease we didn't have?

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.