Quotes About Expectations

There is a real medical condition for which Japanese tourists are sometimes treated after visiting Paris. It is called Paris Syndrome, and symptoms include depression and nausea due to realising that the city isn't as beautiful and romantic as they had previously been led to believe.

Anyone who expects fairness in this life is seriously misinformed.

They're talking about Kobe and how great it is that he's playing with the team. Well, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Now he's the savior because he's playing that way? He's no god. He does what he's supposed to be doing, which is what we learned in kindergarten. Share the ball and play. And that's what we do better than they do

Why don't boys like girls as they are?' 'They bore easy cause the so deadhead. Sometimes they want you mami, sometimes sis, sometimes lovergirl. You game with boys you got to know who you are and not let them tell you'.

There's a formula to my films-people expect certain things out of a Jackie Chan film-but within those expectations, I want to give people a shock

Expectations are pre-meditated resentment.8

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

An average guy makes a date with a girl. It costs him $100, $200. I make a date with a girl, it costs me nothing. I come up to her house. She wants to go out. I let her go! What's my business? I have to follow her around?

Being beautiful, was that for men?' 'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.

this slow dissipation, the gradual abandonment of all expectations, a defeat that had killed everything without a battle.

She guessed he was past a turning point, early thirties, where he imagined he would know something with certainty, and he looked angry that his life was not unfolding in a way befitting him.

me. I don't want to have to feel grateful all the time.

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone—adults promising us their own failed futures.

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.

It's tempting for stepmothers at the breaking point to lower their expectations to where they disengage emotionally from their stepchildren. That's where trouble can set in, because it directly affects the marriage, which in the early years is the weakest link in a new stepfamily. Because in any marriage, when emotional distance sets in, it's hard for partners to turn back to each other and back to the marriage.

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Resentimentul se na?te din neacceptarea faptului c? dorin?ele nu mi s-au realizat, c? ceea ce am spus nu a fost în?eles, c? a?tept?rile mi-au fost în?elate, c? proiectele mi-au fost stricate sau amânate, c? via?a nu se ajusteaz? dup? percep?ia mea.

Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency — she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.

If you are forming relationships to seek happiness – you trying to squeeze happiness out of someone and that person trying to squeeze happiness out of you – this is going to be a painful relationship after some time.

Kyle agreed. "It would be too weird to see you in makeup and heels and all that hot stuff." "But you just said guys like that," Hannah said. "Right," Paul agreed. He stuck his fork back up his nose and added, "But guys are idiots.

You can't foster a relationship with someone who is always checking your performance to make sure it's adequate enough to merit his friendship.

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

There is a certain way that life ought to be, an ideal way, a perfect way, and there is the way that life is, not quite the opposite of ideal, not quite the opposite of perfect, it just is not quite the way it should be but not quite the way it should not be either; I mean to say that in any situation, only one or two, maybe even three out of ten, things are just what you have been praying for.

How do you get to be a person who is made miserable because the weather changed its mind, because the weather doesn't live up to your expectations? How do you get to be that way?