Quotes About Expectations

I knew I would be demonized as entitled and what no woman can ever be: ambitious.

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

Life isn't like a 'Full House' episode.

It was never in the plan for me to direct 'Episode IX,' so I don't know what's going to happen with it.

It's impossible to make 22 or 16 great episodes every year. It doesn't matter who you are or how talented of a group you have.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

I thought the whole thing was you fall in love with somebody, and it's so wonderful, and it's so euphoric, and it's going to be that way forever. Nobody told me that two years after you fall in love, you're going to come down off the euphoria.

Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.

I hate New Year's Eve.

I don't believe in 'happy ever after' at all as a concept.

The type of football I played at Everton, the fans said it wasn't good enough and I would say the same - I knew it wasn't good enough for Everton - but I knew I had to get them in the position where they were safe.

No one can be their best every night.

I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.

It's tough at first. You realize in the NBA, it's not easy. Each and every night, you're playing against that player that was the best high school player, that player that was the best player on his college team.

When we look at something, we are often not aware of who is perceiving, and unaware of the mental-emotional filter created by past experiences, hopes and expectations.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

So he's nervous about me making trouble at the bus stop. It makes me want to laugh. Just as truthfully, I could've told him I was class president. On the football team. Straight-A student. But what was interesting about any of that?

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog.

I have also known of weight estimates by ultrasound to be off by as much as five pounds.

Call one a thief and he will steal": put a stigma on a calling and its followers adjust their morals to it, for it is natural that "the normal conscience," as Hugh Black says, "rises to the demands made on it, and easily falls to the limit of the standard expected from it.

Elisabeth had not had her future and her parents had not had theirs, there was nothing to this so-called future which was always promised to the young.