Quotes About Expectations

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."

One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.Tick, tick, tick.

Beware of finding what you're lookin

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

It's unbelievable I'm swimming so fast. I went in with no expectations. I just went out hoping to get a personal best. I went out there with a smile, just to have fun and see what would happen.

I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?