Quotes About Expectations

The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

In a culture obsessed with happiness, Americans may not be allowing for acceptance that it's OK to sometimes not be perky.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

When I'm in public doing the glamorous-wife-of-rock-star persona, I don't want to disappoint, but when I act, I really like to leave all that behind.

I think it would be really brutal to put on a persona and get famous for that persona. Like, 'I'm number one, I'm the best!' because that sounds like a lot of pressure.

Boy children are primed to expect everything from their wives in the marriage, and not give too much if anything at all.

The height of perfection is mediocrity.

Basta de realidades, queremos promesas

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.

Tidak masalah membayangkan pernikahan akan seperti New York City dan mendapati bahwa ternyata lebih menyerupai Brussels. Bukan berarti ada yang salah, atau bahwa kau dikutuk untuk bercerai. Itu hanya berarti bahwa kau menaiki pesawat yang berbeda.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

Wanita lebih suka mengabdi pada kekinian dan gentar pada ketuaan; mereka dicengkam oleh impian tentang kemudaan yang rapuh itu dan hendak bergayutan abadi pada kemudaan impian itu. Umur sungguh aniaya bagi wanita.

Bagaimanapun baik yang telah kalian peroleh dari kehidupan ini, masih ada saja yang kalian rasa kurang. Yang berada dalam kekurangan ingin terbebas dari kekurangan itu, ingin mendapatkan kemakmuran yang melimpah. Yang telah berada dalam kecukupan ingin lebih cukup lagi. Dari perasaan kurang itu, dari keinginan mendapatkan yang lebih baik itu, timbullah impian. Dan impian itu bisa menjadi padat, menjadi cita-cita. Dan cita-cita itu menjadi pola yang menjadi dasar dan petunjuk dari perbuatan.

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

Decision makers should realize that their primary key lies in making decisions without any undue weight in the past, and with expectations about the future that are as accurate as possible.

Great mansions are devoid of hopes and aspirations.

A married man is a caged bird.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

To be anything but kind in the face of male desire was dangerous.

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.