Quotes About Expectations

Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look." I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

But perhaps we ask too much of him. Perhaps he really was only a god.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

I hope you'll understand if I don't kiss you good night on the first date. I just don't want a reputation as that kind of guy. I mean, if you get the milk for free, you won't buy the cow, and then I won't have my steaks. I love steak, especially barbequed. Let

I'm looking for a trophy husband, myself," said Mandi. "Yeah, but she has trouble getting them to stay up on the mantle," I said.

We are told repeatedly in Scripture to prepare for hardships; so why do we believe our lives should be characterized by ease?

I've given up on normal as a life goal, having realized that 'normal' is just a setting on one's dryer.

You know, the dreams you had for me weren't my dreams," he said. "Maybe those dreamsare meant for you.

The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they're human beings.

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette ' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

No debes poner todos tus huevos en la misma cesta. A la inversa, no debes contar los huevos antes de que estén puestos.

Pensi che a te non succederà mai, che non ti può succedere, che sei l'unica persona al mondo in cui queste cose non succederanno mai e poi, a una a una, cominciano a succederti tutte, esattamente come succedono a tutti gli altri.

Weary and stuffed from being force-fed the falsehood that when one of your kind makes it, it means that you've all made it.

Hereos. Idols. They're never who you think they are. Shorter. Nastier. Smellier. And when you finally meet them, there's something that makes you want to choke the shit out of them.

turns out that one can screw up being happy by trying to be happy—or at least by trying to be happy in the wrong way.

trials they were asked, "How happy are you right now?" The main predictor of reported short-term happiness wasn't how much the subjects were making; it was how much they were making relative to their expectations. Momentary pleasure and pain are, at least in part, relative experiences.

John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.

Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.

Getting a little sober is as unrealistic as being a little bit pregnant

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Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope, and lasting contentment of heart.

Here's the reality: most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They're not angry because he has failed to deliver what he promised. They're angry because he has failed to deliver what they have craved, expected, or demanded. When awe of self replaces awe of God, God ceases to be your Lord and is reduced to being your indentured servant.