Quotes About Expectations

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening.

They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.

Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If theyre the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.

Baby being part of this life I feel like Im bound to end up with somebody thats been with everybody.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

Well, I think to myself now, domestic bliss may be one thing, but domestic goddess you are not.

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

She had, she declared, "no patience with women whom I hear telling what wonders they would do if they were only men, when I see so much of their legitimate work left undone.... I could name many things they could do," she continued in a revealing concession to prevailing anxieties about respectability, "without ever going into a ward."47

Books come in all shapes and sizes – as do writers – and sometimes those books you think you are going to love, you don't, while sometimes books you think are not worth picking up turn out to be some of the best you have ever read.

people systematically overestimate both the pain they will experience as a consequence of anticipated losses and the joy they will garner from anticipated gains.

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Everybody's the next somebody. I was the next Hank Aaron. You see what happened.

Johnny Quick: Did we save the world, then? Batman: We did. Johnny Quick: And all that rubbish about me being faster than Flash? You knew this was gonna happen. Good one, mate.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense. I guess I'm kind of happy where I'm at, and I take whatever comes, and it's a good thing.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.