Quotes About Expectations

If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you"re going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn"t exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems.

It's one thing to expect teachers to challenge each child, and expect kids to do their best. It's another to expect that the best will be the same for everyone.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

Only make one meal for your kids. They won't starve to death if they don't eat it. In fact, if they are hungry every night because they refuse dinner, perhaps they'll learn to eat more. "I call it the Starbucks Phenomenon: The expectation that it's okay for each person in the family to order something different in the home," Dr. Fishel says. "That's just another burden on who is doing the cooking and could be another impediment.

Anybody looking for true love has never had it.

By the time they've gained respect for you, you've lost respect for them.

Why were all the handsome ones always such bastards?

That dichotomy between who she was and who she thought she should be was what really killed her.

We had all thought things would be quite different when we first came to France. The words Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, were painted in giant letters over the door of the building we were in.

Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be but I'm not happy when I try to fake it.

Why would affluence make him mad?" "Maybe he's mad that this is as good as it gets. Your big house. His good school. I think it's very difficult for kids these days, in a way. The country's very prosperity has become a burden, a dead end. Everything works, doesn't it? At least if you're white and middle class. So it must often seem to young people that they're not needed. In a sense, it's as if there's nothing more to do.

whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Later you referenced that anecdote to illustrate that my expectations were always preposterously outsized; that my very ravenousness for the exotic was self-destructive, because as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.

expectations are dangerous when they are both high and unformed.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Remember that nutty little story I told you about the first time I ever went overseas for my junior year abroad at Green Bay, and I stepped onto the airstrip in Madrid to be obscurely disheartened that Spain, too, had trees. Of course Spain has trees! you jeers. I was embarrassed; of course I knew, in a way, it had trees, but with the sky and the ground and the people walking around--well, it just didn't seem that different.

Only in retrospect do I appreciate that this "doing your bit" is a deadly misapprehension of the nature of familial ties. Better understanding them now, I find blood relationships rather frightening. What is wonderful about kinship is also what is horrible about it: there is no line in the sand, no natural limit to what these people can reasonably expect of you.

take me less seriously.) 10. Paying the piper. (Parenthood repays a debt. But who wants to pay a debt she can escape? Apparently, the childless get away with something sneaky. Besides, what good is repaying a debt to the wrong party? Only the most warped mother could feel rewarded for her trouble by the fact that at last her daughter's life is hideous, too.) Those, as best I can recall, are the pygmy misgivings I weighed beforehand, and I've tried not to

catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out killer" would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this: 1. Hassle. 2. Less time just the two of us. (Try no time just the two of us.) 3. Other people. (PTA meetings. Ballet teachers. The kid's insufferable friends and their insufferable parents.) 4. Turning into a cow. (I was slight, and preferred to stay that way. My sister-in-law had

A los profesores se les culpaba de cualquier cosa que funcionara mal con los muchachos y a la vez se recurría a ellos como si fueran los únicos capaces de salvarlos. Ese doble papel de chivo expiatorio y salvador era a todas luces mesiánico, con la única diferencia de que, probablemente, Jesús estaba mejor pagado.

Hay algo especialmente terrible en el hecho de que te digan una y otra vez que tienes la vida más maravillosa del mundo y que ni siquiera así esa vida mejore y siga siendo una mierda.

It's not your job to be *pre-disappointed* for him, dig? You...go on and on about how big and terrible 'the world' is. Well, maybe so. But in that case, it's the world's job to be big and terrible, not yours.

A la hora de la verdad, la gente a la que uno consideraba «amigos íntimos» no era necesariamente aquella con la que se podía contar.

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?