Quotes About Expectations

Don't. You don't get to stand me up again, then get some pussy. Pussy like mine is reserved for the nigga that comes home on time. Take your perfidious ass on somewhere.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves.

The ruins stood above the hissing traffic like some monument to doomed expectations.

He had ambitions on my behalf and more or less at my expense. This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished.

This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished

The life of a star of this type and magnitude. Isn't the life structured to cut you down early? This is the point, isn't it? There are rules, guidelines. If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology.

Quanti inizi ci vogliono prima che si comincino a vedere le menzogne del proprio entusiasmo?

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

You build up expectations of behavior based upon prior experience, and if the items with which you interact fail to live up to expectations, that is a violation of trust, for which you assign blame, which can soon lead to anger.

You are designing for people the way you would like them to be, not for the way they really are." When

Just as men often marry brunettes after years of dating only blondes, and end up strolling on Madison Avenue with the small white puppy they swore they would never have, buyers are liars.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

Remarkably, the most common regret of the dying was this: they wish they'd had the courage to live a life true to themselves and not the life others expected of them.

We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

I realized that for years I'd thought of love as something that would complete me, make all my troubles go away. I worshipped at the altar of romantic completion. And it had cost me, plenty of times. ANd it had cost me most of the girls I'd dated, too, because I wanted them to be something they weren't. It's too much pressure to put on a person.

Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love.

How many relationships have been ruined by two people attempting to squeeze the Jesus out of each other?

I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.