Quotes About Expectations

Baby being part of this life I feel like I'm bound to end up with somebody that's been with everybody.

Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

Be pretty, but not threateningly pretty. Be a go-getter but don't threaten anyone or be a bitch. Caught in this web of contradictions, we have to be everything for everyone and we lose the ability to explore who we really are.

She looked u at me through tear-stained cheeks and stammered, "My dad won't give me a Porsche when I come home if I don;t get all A's." I was a bit stunned. IT was my first encounter with real wealth. I remember looking at her and thinking, Holy shit. Being spoiled is worse abuse that being hit. At least I knew that being hit is wrong, But being spoiled ruins you.

The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

Always wear pretty underwear, on account of you just never know.

Pre-forty, you can wash your face with Tide and use Vaseline for moisturizer, toss on a little mascara and lip gloss, and you're a friggin' cover girl. Those of us on the slippery slope that is the Other Side of Forty can testify-- those days are so over. You pore over labels promising everything short of actual rebirth-- you will buy most of them for an average of $450 per quarter once-- and none of them will work. You will still be getting older and poorer with every passing purchase.

Why does she always have the moral high ground, what is it about women, always behaving so well and thinking of things we should have thought of first and shaming us?

According to a recent survey by Forrester Research, only 15 percent of executives say their meetings with salespeople met their expectations. From that, only 7 percent of execs actually scheduled follow-up conversations.

According to a recent survey by Forrester Research, only 15 percent of executives say their meetings with salespeople met their expectations. From that, only 7 percent of execs actually scheduled follow-up conversations. Ouch. That's not good!

When you're younger you're so happy to get some good loving you convince yourself you're in love, can't live with out it, and chase the dick like a crack addict after the pipe, or chase the bad sex hoping something happened to the man over night and the next time it'll be good.