Quotes About Expectations

They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.

We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Even on factory assembly lines respect and trust between leaders and followers may inspire line workers to exceed design expectations and motivate them not to slack off. Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Mesdames, un conseil. Si vous cherchez un homme beau, riche et intelligent... Prenez-en trois !" Ladies, a word of advice. If you're looking for a handsome, rich and intelligent man… Take three!

No different from others of my age am I for I feel the pressures of the age in which I live: that of attraction, wealth and popularity.

Reality always manages to make things much worse than that of which imagination can conjure.

The expectations of oneself reflect the knowledge and imagination of oneself.

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

All I ask is one thing, and I'm asking this particularly of young people: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism – it's my least favorite quality, and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism — it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they though they were going to get. But if you work really hard and are kind, amazing things will happen. I'm telling you: Amazing things will happen.

Realize that this—the belief that you will be happy if you only get what you want—is an illusion. It's something that allows you to release responsibility for being happy right now, because "someday" everything will line up just right. That day may never come. Happiness isn't getting everything you want. It's appreciating what you have and staying open to the limitless possibilities before you.

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

Marry me," he said, searching her eyes for some sign, some indication of how to proceed. Her gaze held his. His heart beat in his chest like a drum. "Why should I?" she asked, her voice hushed and oddly hopeful and terribly vulnerable. He swallowed, feeling lost and uncertain. "Well," he said, trying to sound reasonable, "I've got a few more horses now." She stared up at him, the blood draining from her face. Then she slugged him.

Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.

It was not altogether easy when one's daughters were too gifted, it really wasn't. Mrs. Lossius nodded in the direction of Harriet, who, well brought up and virtuous, was busy with the coffee kettle. "You can be glad, Mrs Pram, that your daughters are not gifted in any particular direction.

Chang nodded sagely. "My father insisted on it. He said, 'You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not a man. Conceal your defects.' So I tried. I wanted to tell the old boy about the up-and-out, and what we did there, but it did not matter. He said, 'Airplanes were good enough for Confucius, and they are for me too.' The old humbug!

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame and crush them.