Quotes About Expectations

Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.

Love us dirty, for any one will love us clean.

Chi racchiude in sè del talento deve aver l'anima più pura di ogni altro. A un altro molto si perdona, ma a lui non si perdonerà. A chi è uscito di casa con un chiaro abito festivo basta una sola macchia di fango schizzata da una ruota perché tutta la gente lo circondi e lo segni a dito e parli della sua sporcizia, mentre la stessa gente non nota le molte macchie sui molti passanti vestiti di abiti quotidiani. Perché sugli abiti di tutti i giorni non si notano le macchie.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.

And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

Once anointed a hero by your fellow man, you lose the right to privacy. You become an object, stripped of some unquantifiable humanity, as if you have won a cosmic lottery and woke one day to find yourself a minor deity. The Patron Saint of Good Luck. It stops mattering what you wanted for yourself. All that matters is the role you played in the lives of others. You are a rare butterfly held roughly at a right angle to the sun.

if our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

Who are you trying to protect, punish or please by not succeeding?

We figured that if a promoter took the time to remove all the brown M&M's from the bowl before putting them in our dressing room, it was far less likely he'd screwed up any of the other, really important stuff. It

Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, most relationships do not end suddenly. This is true of friends, romantic partners, and business associates alike. When someone claims to be blindsided, it's usually because they had their eyes closed.

Changing yourself is supposed to mean hope, at least according to the self-help books and magazine paradigms, but for me - and I suspect many others - it simply means finding new ways to feel inadequate.

Thank you, but I take no joy in my wedding." "Of course you don't, but still, you must act the part. I often take no joy in my spinsterhood; I have no babes to fill my arms, and yet by acting the part of it, I convince myself that I am not lonely. And sometimes it works.

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

Boys are not supposed to cry. Because when they do, things get worse. Then suddenly you have two problems. You have whatever it was that made you cry in the first place, and then you also have the problem that you are a boy crying. And someone is bound to let you know this is worse. So now you have two problems.

It was the woman's job to be on the defensive, because past experience had taught her to be. It was the guy's job to be on the offensive, because he had no choice. It was that or never meet at all.

I was boring myself. That's the worst part of a bad date. It makes you feel like a toad, and you keep telling yourself, "I know I'm more fun than this, and I know that when I came into this café I wasn't in despair about the human condition.

If women are trapped by the whore/Madonna complex, men are equally trapped by this warrior/minstrel complex. What's more, while a man is expected to be modern, that is, to support feminism in all its particulars, to see and treat women as equals in every respect, he is on the other hand often still expected to be traditional at the same time, to treat a lady like a lady, to lead the way and pick up the check.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Very goodlooking people are as a rule more forgetful than the median. Their mothers start it and the world at large continues it, handing them things, picking things up for them, smoothing their vicinity out for them in every way. I on the other hand remember everything.

One thing you distinctly never want to hear a man you're interested in say softly is that his favorite book in the whole world is The Golden Notebook. Here you are dealing with a liar from the black lagoon and it's time to start feeling in your purse for carfare.

People who had children assuming they were creating future friends were rolling the dice.