Quotes About Expectations

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can't I received the same feeling in return?"-Ariel

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

In the 'looks of disappointment' department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.