Quotes About Expectations

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

Don't water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.

I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

Men respect standards- get some!

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Teach people how to treat you

Never expect people to understand, respect or love you, they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

Lynet scowled. "I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one.

Never in her wildest dreams would she have pegged this man as a dirty talker. Just went to show that you should never underestimate the quiet ones - and never let your guard down around them either.

For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.--Simone de Beauvoir

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

Prince Charming can go suck rocks. I've met my true love and he's a contractor