Quotes About Expectations

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones.

There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

Are we acting like a couple? I'm just trying to get it straight. Cause I'm over here convinced that it's too early for mistakes.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

was born to be big. . . . And I ain't disappointing nobody.

How many husbands and wives," Merrin uttered sadly, "must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds.

In a society in which everyone is assumed and expected to be economically self-sufficient, as an example, doesn't economic dependency almost automatically mean poverty? No attention is given to such issues.)

Requiring cats to hunt like dogs will benefit only the mice.

There is no such person as a perfect parent, and certainly this book was not written by perfect parents. Do the best you can with the resources you have. That's all your child will ever expect.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

If you find it difficult to write, lower your standards.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

Craig Karpel to his fellow Boomers. In The Retirement Myth,

Most Americans express more hope for their own prospects than for their children's—or the nation's

There is a mysterious cycle in human events," President Franklin Roosevelt observed in the depths of the Great Depression. "To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation has a rendezvous with destiny.

Then, as now, neatness in dress and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found not to excel in any of these.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

On another memorable hunt, a lone mallard came in. Jase told Phil, "Let's let Willie take this one." Now, I know why he said it. Jase was convinced I would raise my gun and miss. Well, I raised my gun and folded it. Phil looked at Jase and said, "Ol' Willie's been practicing." We laughed and talked about my shot the entire morning.

People learn to be hostile,disparaging and manipulative because it works for them.these people expect you to react in certain ways to their style,because in that way they win.if you allow yourself to be sucked into their expectations,you have not only let them get away but you are bound to feel frustrated,helpless and eventuall your bad side of nature will reached its climax.