Quotes About Expectations

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

The wise men say that the remembrance of things past is all that we have for the future, and am I to blame if I've turned up this time as I shouldn't have been, when it was a high soprano I wanted, and deep corn curls to my bum, with a womb as of a fishing schooner? And what do I get but a face on me like an old child's bottom - is that happiness, do you think?

?ovek ima razlog da se razo?ara samo u sebe. U svet i ljude, razo?arani su glupaci.

It's such a burden to have to pull off smart...

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

I no longer predicted a future with any of them, and it could have been, in fact, that I subconsciously chose women who were so fucked up, disaster was virtually assured, providing fodder for the stories I was now writing about Asian guys who dated fucked-up white girls.

Some people, a lot of people, in fact, are disqualified to lead because they cannot work through and with the half-people who are available to work with them. And the parents who try to raise perfect children are certain to raise neurotics, with much greater damage possible.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Union Station was a perfect representative of the city. Sad, drab, dirty, and hopeless, it was the right place to enter Providence. You didn't get your hopes up.

guy trips over the age thirty wire, he realizes that certain things he wanted in his life just aren't going to happen.

he wanted to be best man. "That's old-school shit," Malone said. "That was our parents, our grandparents, it don't necessarily work that way anymore.

What has become of the world, when children are looked upon by their parents as trophies to be won?

Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.

Is the new generation of writers more concerned than their predecessors with politics, economics, and social class? I think that there are lowered expectations, not sthetic expectations for the work, but lowered expectations in terms of life. My generation, perhaps foolishly, expected, even demanded, that life be wonderful and magical and then tried to make it so by writing in a rather complex way. It seems now quite an eccentric demand.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life.

Citizens expect quick responses to their questions or perspectives, putting enormous pressure on the machinery of government to react quickly and to get it right, which it was hardly designed to do, given its reliance on hierarchy.

Me había engañado pensando en que Shigeko era diferente, pero no. También ella era la vaca que da un latigazo fulminante e inesperado con la cola para matar a un tábano. Entonces supe que, a partir de ese momento, debería ser tímido incluso con aquella niña.

Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you're going to be.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.