Quotes About Expectations

There is often a great difference between what we want and what we think we want, and this is complicated still further by the fact that we are often greatly influenced by what others want for us

Ideally I'd like her to get to know the prince a bit before he kisses her," said the queen. "Make sure he's a nice boy and understands how to treat his mother-in-law. But that's still a very good change, my dear!" She beamed at the youngest fairy god-mouse, who looked embarrassed by all the attention.

I hate prophesies! All they're good for is an extra club to beat yourself up with after the fact.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Sometimes I wonder who my mother might be if she weren't married to my father. Everyone around him seems that much less free-spirited, that much less open to possibility, so much more controlled. At her office she is loud and filled with infectious laugher. Here she is more quiet and deferential. I can cut a cucumber, I say more sharply than I intend. She winces and busies herself with searching for a vegetable peeler, if only to make a point.

See over there, I can be me, he says. I smile but it makes me sad. I haven't found any safe spaces. Damien says, you're safe with me. Until I'm not. He raises an eyebrow. With you I mean, I add. I dream about an internship on the West Coast, but there is nothing for me to do. I am not the president's daughter. I've never met a movie star. I barely watch television.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

We make high demands on the people we expect to deliver justice, and we don't always appreciate how much it eats away at them.

It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely resemble her books. Or rather, that the books in which she found its likeness were so unexciting.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

Tips for Being Mindful • Focus on what works • Keep an eye on your goals and values • Give up opinions and judgments in favor of facts • Give up expectations of reciprocity in the moment • Stop wanting • Instead of being right, lose the battle but win the war1

The tiny bud the parents nurtured does not seem to have bloomed into the magnificent flower they expected. Parents feel as if they have been cheated or robbed; their family seems irretrievably lost to them.

The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think they'd find fulfilling if they were female.

RUSSEL. When he grows up I want to be able to point to him and say: "There goes my son -- the man". I want to live in a masculine culture. BONGI. That's a contradiction in terms.

Trying to live up to what everyone else thinks and wants for you is a recipe for perpetual anxiety, self-doubt, and a generally unhappy life.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

This is the way of air travel: fellow passengers applaud because they didn't die, and then they cut in front of you so they can exit four seconds earlier.

I hope my girls don't grow up to be models," Maria Fabiola says. But there is something in her voice that implies that this will be difficult to fight-their beauty will pull them inexorably toward modelhood.

You know you wouldn't be happy unless you married an odd sort of person