Quotes About Expectations

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

You cannot be completely nice. It's impossible. Who is it? Who is the perfect guy? Show him to me! It doesn't exist. And thank god.

What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.

I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?