Quotes About Expectations

I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favors.

That's why teenage dating is so dumb, because it's doomed to fail. You'd think people would have learned that by now, but I guess they haven't. They go right on falling in love and thinking it's going to survive high school.

They don't like it when you end things the way you want to and don't wait for the way it's "supposed" to happen. What if suicide is the way it's supposed to happen? Do they ever think of that?

Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?

If you say, 'I really love this girl except for this one thing--if I could just change this one thing, then everything would be perfect,' then you've already lost her.

Powerful Leaders have high expectations by faith that each day will be the first day of the rest of their life; what are you expecting?

But Thiel, who gave a speech supporting Trump at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, reported back that, even having been forewarned, he absolutely was certain of Trump's sincerity when he said they'd be friends for life—only never to basically hear from him again or have his calls returned.

The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.

Trump, as almost anyone who had ever worked for him appreciated, was, despite what you hoped he might be, Trump—and he would invariably sour on everyone around him.

Shortly after eight o'clock that evening, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania, to whom Donald Trump had made his solemn guarantee, was in tears—and not of joy.

The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be.

I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.

Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason.

it's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way.

Das Leben, dachte Michel, müsste eigentlich etwas Einfaches sein; etwas, das man wie eine Aneinanderreihung endlos wiederholter kleiner Rituale erleben kann. Rituale, die etwas albern sein durften, aber an die man trotzdem glauben konnte. Ein Leben ohne große Erwartungen und ohne Dramen.

For the French, an intellectual didn't have to be responsible. That wasn't his job.

I once met a girl – a pretty, attractive girl – who told me she fantasised about Jean-François Copé. It took me several days to get over it. Really, with girls today, all bets are off.

Una chica que aspire a un trabajo de dependienta en Céline o Hermès deberá, ante todo, cuidar su presencia;

tüdrukud võivad ju litsid olla, asja võib niimoodi vaadata küll, aga karjäär on palju hullem lits ja pealegi ei paku see mitte mingit naudingut.

El amor de los padres a sus hijos es algo constatable, es una suerte de fenómeno natural, sobre todo en las mujeres; pero los hijos no corresponden nunca a este amor y nunca son dignos de recibirlo, el amor de los hijos a sus padres es absolutamente contra natura.

Como Paul esperaba, la evocación de las hijas de Cécile había aligerado notablemente la atmósfera, en el fondo los jóvenes nunca tienen auténticos problemas, problemas graves, siempre imaginamos que las cosas se arreglarán para los jóvenes. En cambio, realmente nadie cree ya que un parado de cincuenta años tenga posibilidades de encontrar un empleo.

Îmi pl?ceau cataloagele turistice, caracterul lor abstract, felul lor de a reduce locurile lumii la un È™ir de tarife È™i fericiri posibile: apreciam în special sistemul de notare cu steluÈ›e, indicând intensitatea fericirii la care erai îndrept??it s? speri.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

When we don't ask for much, we also send a message that we're not really serious.