Quotes About Expectations

In this dirty-minded world, she thought, you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore—or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. If you don't fit either category, then everyone tries to make you think there is something wrong with you.

What do they expect of a one-eyed, one-armed artist-- and the son of Garp? No flaws?

It might be more accurate to think of love as a feeling we have for others who match up with what society teaches us to want in a mate.

Saturday you might see your dad in a T-shirt, your brother might be asked if he'd like to throw a ball around, and from a corner of the lawn you might sit and watch, wild with the wrongness of being a girl, wild with stoppered grace.

Clean, hard-working, dependable, quiet type.' Good God! What kind of monster is this that they want. I am afraid that I could never work for a concern with a worldview like that.

For Christmas, Mrs. Levy always compiled not a gift list but rather a list of the injustices and brutalities she had suffered since August. The girls got this list in their stockings. The only gift Mrs. Levy asked of the girls was that they attack their father. Mrs. Levy loved Christmas.

We make her bear and raise our children And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen We tell her, home is the only place she should be Then we complain that she's too unworldly to be our friend

When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down Happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life.

La vida es aquello que te va sucediendo mientras te empeñas en hacer otros planes.

Nos hicieron creer que cada uno de nosotros es una media naranja, y que la vida tiene sentido cuando encontramos la otra mitad. No nos contaron que ya nacemos enteros, que nadie en nuestra vida merece cargar en las espaldas la responsabilidad de completar lo que nos falta.

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time".

You can satisfy some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot satisfy all of the people all the time

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact