Quotes About Expectations

You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have.

I don't understand how a person won't do ANYTHING to help themselves but WILL get upset with someone else for not giving them the help the EXPECT or feel ENTITLED to. #VICTIM #TakeResponsibility #GrowUP #No1owesUshit #lifegoeson #LiveLearnLove #CheLeSmith

I figured that kind of delightful explosion was reserved for fictional heroines with perfect complexions and no cellulite on their thighs.

For some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying "barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times," but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to "rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper," that would have been wrong.

Popularity can be a real headache.

people suffer much more from the promises they don't make than the ones they can't keep

And just because I was a little more willing and a lot more able to be a parent didn't mean I was itching to become one.

So what kind of minister do your folks want?" I asked. "Who cares? They're olds, too. They want someone who will like them more than Tom Fox does. But I think we need someone younger and not some old-school lady minister going on and on with the Mary Oliver and the Annie Dillard." I liked both writers and said so.

For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.

Do not assume a role you have not been given. In other words, don't do the things a wife does until you are a wife. Be a friend until he carries you over the threshold.

Many women have married primarily for money and found themselves miserable. No amount of trinkets and possessions can fill a heart

No matter how long you have been waiting, the man God has for you will surpass your expectations. You will meet him when god says so. Not a minute early, not a moment later.

But it is not an option for women like myself and Rose Bertin. Men want wives who are sweet and good with children, not women who plan and watch the accounts

This isn't how I imagined our lives would be when I was Queen of Libya and you King of Armenia.

Be careful here, my lady. Let history forget your name. For if your deeds are to live in eternity, you will have to become exactly what your family wants you to be." "And what is that?" I demanded. "A slave to the throne.

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

I'd never been a big fan of disappointment.

If I need something you can't give, I need to walk away, because sooner or later, all I'll see is what you can't give. I won't be able to see what you can.

Everybody wants to do whatever they can go give their kids an edge, even if it is ridiculous.

He's too old to be going to visit a cousin.

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

She wouldn't have sex with me in public bathrooms. Little things like this haunted me. I was only twenty-five.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.