Quotes About Expectations

You haven't any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are, cut down to average size, and be glad you have them. To drink with, laugh with, borrow money from, lend money to, stay away from their special girls as you want them to stay away from yours, and above all, never break your word to, once it's been given. And that is all the obligation you have, all you have the right to expect. ("New York Blues")

We don't marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our eyes and we see them as they really are, perhaps never to glimpse it again. How lovely she is, how unearthly lovely.

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

We are a generation of young women who were told we could do anything and instead heard that we had to be everything.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

People don't always let us become who we are. They try to keep us in the box of who we were.

Before long your fears become adult ones: crushing debts and responsibilities, sick parents and sick kids, the possibility of dying unremembered or unloved. Fears of not being the person you were so certain you'd grow up to be.

If Miss Havisham had gone with that sassy taffeta number instead, hey, who knows, maybe it would've been all peaches and cream.

I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

Normally, we're never satisfied.

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.

The problem with thinking "we go to church" is that it gives us a consumer mindset: I'm looking for a church that meets my needs. I need a good church that will help me.

When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both.

one client who went out of their way to regularly thank the team when they said 'no'—as this client had suffered the effects of wishful thinking all too often.

And I realize I've been betrayed by the two vices that fiction promised me I'd adore. Sal Paradise held up bottles of booze like a housewife in a detergent commercial. Holden Caulfield reached for his cigarettes like an act of faith. Even Huckleberry Finn tapped on his pipe with relief and satisfaction. If sex turns out to be this bad, I'm never reading again.

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On the other hand, in a famous "genius test" conducted at Stanford by Lewis Terman and colleagues from the 1920s into the 1990s, a cohort of 1,500 youngsters with IQs over 135 ultimately failed to produce a single genius.48

A recent article in the New York Times, "Google, Tell Me. Is My Son a Genius?," pointed out that parents today are 2.5 times as likely to ask online "Is my son gifted?" than "Is my daughter gifted?" and similarly 2.0 times as likely to inquire "Is my daughter overweight?" as they are for a son.

Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be

The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic...

I feel like I'm taking beefcake shots for a calender," J said. "Yeah there's a huge market for topless tranny academics. Right up there with the firemen.

Actually, Dan," I answer, "you're asking me to be a mind reader, and no, teachers don't get paid for that. Think about it. If you don't even know when you are stuck, how am I supposed to know?