Quotes About Expectations

Taylor's swallow on the other end of the phone was audible. "They named her Taylor." Brandon's smile burned at the back of his eyes. "She'll have a lot to live up to.

So you tell Dad, and you two can make your peace with me not being the son you planned on. And I hope you decide to love the son you have." He took a deep breath and saw her expression transition from shock to irritation to hurt.

Okay, we know that you are all at the age when your peers start to ask certain questions, and in this town, everybody is going to make certain assumptions about us politically, but we need you to know something.

Because I'm supposed to be straight. I can't be gay, or stupid, or a failure. I can't. If I'm gay or stupid or a fuck-up, that means she left me and not him!

Plans are what you make when you are starting your life, Martin. Life is what happens when you're making your plans.

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

When training kittens, consistency must rule, or else! Don't allow your kitten on the countertop one day and chastised him for it the next. First of all, it's not fair to him to change the rules in the middle of the game. Also, inconsistency sabotages any training progress you've made.

Her marriage had been made. Everyone had known it but the bride.

Just because you admired someone didn't mean he was your soul mate.

When I was younger," she said slowly, "I always hoped you were hiding some horrid secret. You were too nice." She sniffed. "You have no idea how annoying it is that your horrid secret is a heart complaint, and not, for instance, a double murder committed by moonlight.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.

Second, all four women in the genealogy are involved in unexpected sexual relationships. Therefore, they anticipate Joseph's learning that his betrothed is pregnant.

Even without the angelic announcement, there are expectations placed especially on only children, or children born to comparatively older parents.

Some women think that successful lies in mariage and making children

Most children still want and expect their parents to be a faithful couple. Children are more likely to thrive when their parents are stable and focused on the family rather than on an outside romantic relationship.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Source?

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

Neužtenka priimti žmones tokius, kokie jie yra; reikia nor?ti, kad jie tokie b?t?, - štai kur slypi tikroji meil?.

No one ever asked me if I wanted to play tennis, let alone make it my life. My father decided long before I was born that I would be a professional tennis player.

Pressure is how you know everything's working

When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it