Quotes About Expectations

I think I love the scene because it reflects how love works. "Soul mates" is what you aim for, but soup snakes is what you get sometimes.

But a guy at thirty-two—he can act and dress like a grown man or a thirteen-year-old boy, and both are totally acceptable.

But it took me twelve weeks to realize that I don't really like organizations where people are "deemed" things. I should mention that I did learn a few undeniably useful things at my sorority,

Let's be honest—Asian women get a bad rap. We are known for scoring high on the SATs, but also for driving poorly and tipping badly. And I don't drive so great, so I needed to make sure to overcompensate in the other department.

But I don't love being asked to be an investor in a crowd-funded honeymoon. Here is why: it's not especially emotionally rewarding to know that I paid for three of five nights of a yurt rental in Big Sur.

One of the great things about women's magazines is that they accept that drinking water and sitting quietly will make your breasts huge and lips plump up to the size of two bratwursts. Maybe

I think sometimes when we grew up with a parent who is deeply flawed....we learn, subconsciously at least, to expect the worst from everyone else as well....Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way forever. We can learn to see with new eyes if we try.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.

He may bring home the bacon, but he won't be bringing home your bacon.

People do the same thing with problem partners. If you've waited a year for your partner to change, you're almost magically drawn into waiting another year. And then how can you not wait two more years after waiting the first two years?

Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful, except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.

We don't have intercourse anymore. I'm not complaining, it's my own fault. I lie there beside him and try to send signals to my vagina, but it's like trying to get cable channels on a Tv that doesn't have cable. My mind requests sex, but my vagina is just waiting for the next time it has to pee. It thinks its whole job in life is to pee.

I excused him for the cover and for everything else. For not yet being a New Man. We fell into silence then; he did not ask me any more questions. I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.

I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

For many, the twenties seem like the time of infinite possibility, although in retrospect a woman will almost always idealize her thirties.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.

Man sollte sich nie etwas Unmögliches wünschen, denn wer von Palästen träumt, verliert seinen Platz in der Hütte.

as time passes, the spontaneity and interest fades and it gets rougher. you become unable to forgive things you used to forgive. only your demands will increase. if you know the person won't answer to them, you start to look for something else. after all, no matter how close you were, you're the same as everyone else. if your expectations are too high, you are the one who's going to get hurt.

People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books. But they think children are happy. That's their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak . 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.]

People think, 'Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books.' But they think children are happy. That's their first mistake.

The kick in the teeth with fame is, when you don't have it, you beat yourself up for it because you don't have it, but when you have it, you are miserable and kill yourself for it.

Today, we ask not what we can do for our country but what our country, employer, fast-food purveyor, or favorite airline can do for us.