Quotes About Expectations

For it depended entirely on me as to whether the myth of the mountain was to be transformed and the path found between the supernatural and reality. It was in me that all expectations were vested.

El mejor modo de castigar a los humanos, es dándoles lo que tanto reclaman.

Going forward, I expect you to treat me respectfully. If you don't or can't, then please don't say anything to me. (compromise) I don't deserve to be treated this way, and I'm not going to accept it anymore

Allow yourself to envision us together," he'd told her just last week. Stella shook her head. No, there was no future with someone she was ashamed to be seen with in public.

One reason I like to work for him is that he never rides me for not acting the way he would act. He knows what I can do and that's all he ever expects; but he sure expects that.

A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Women then very seldom wore watches. They did their chores till the chores were finished or they fell over dead, whichever came first.

Don't expect people, circumstances, and events to change for you to feel better, because none of them ever will. You'll never be happy if you wait for the world to change according to your desires or your expectations. To change how you feel in any given moment is always an inside job.

Emily?" Her mother's strident voice echoed up the staircase. "Where are you, child? I told you we would be leaving at ten thirty on the dot. Come along. We can't keep the young men waiting. Best foot forward.

Why must I still see myself in competition with him? I wondered. Shouldn't I be content to be a wife and mother?

Belinda laughed. "Darling, if only true virgins were allowed a white wedding, church organists would die of starvation.

I'm not completely sure yet whether I want to marry at all," I said. "To tell you the truth, I don't like the thought of being under the thumb of some man for the rest of my life. It seems to me that women are expected to surrender all freedom and individuality when they become wives.

My father is the son of a vicar and rose to become a judge. My mother is solidly middle class. Her father was a bank manager. But she has grand ideas. She was set on my marrying a title.

People will let you down. All the time they'll let you down. But you must never let them down.

Querido lector, querida lectora: todo matrimonio es un reality show, una prueba para los nervios y los pasados y las violencias, y un experimento cruel para que todos los demás, todos los testigos que miran de reojo, confirmen y sigan creyendo que el fracaso es el destino de los otros: "pobres…

Hand-wringing parents don't want their precious offspring looking at wieners and hoo-hahs when they're supposed to be amassing student debt, so they demand that the Termite Mound fix the problem by Doing Something.

The Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz once said, "The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

During my session this art of relaxation itself became the basis of an immense revelation, as it suddenly appeared to me that something in the spirit of this relaxation, something in the achievement of a perfect, trusting and loving openness of spirit, is the very essence and purpose of life. Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Lauretta! ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names: if you had called her Deborrah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name.

Imagine yourself a teacher with your child in your classroom. Try emulating a teacher's clarity, directness, and expectations for an hour or so, and see what happens.

Practice telling your child your expectations and wishes in statements that declare rather than ask.