Quotes About Expectations

La vida me había enseñado que era mejor no pedirle demasiado. Lo que acabábamos de vivir era como un regalo. Y ya está, ya lo habíamos abierto.

First of all, keep in mind that thinking about what you're going to do is a way of stalling. If you really could imagine what would happen when you made an image, there would be no need to do it. Even trying to imagine what a finished work of art will look like will probably lead to expectations that will be let down by the real experience. Making art is not solely an act of will. Rather it's the outcome of a dialogue between artists and their art.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.

I would not be understood to inveigh against wealth, or against the enjoyments of it; they are real enjoyments, and allied to many elegancies in manners and in taste ; — I only wish to prevent unprofitable pains and inconsistent expectations.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

Es ist mir ohnehin zutiefst unverständlich, was verheiratete oder glücklich liebende Leute auf einem Tanzfest oder in einer Diskothek suchen, wo der ganze Reiz solcher Veranstaltungen doch ausschließlich darin besteht, daß man nicht weiß, in wessen Gesellschaft man sie verlassen wird oder ob die Jagd ergebnislos bleibt.

A son is a son till he takes a wife, a daughter is a daughter the rest of her life … But sometimes is not the case.

I'm too old to play hard to get,' Marion said. 'Somebody asks me out, I'm standing with my hat and coat on in case they change their mind!

The studios wanted to give me the Monroe-type sex buildup. I wanted to develop my acting, not my body.

He just hoped Meg leading the way didn't mean all the blood prophets would do strange things to their hair.

The fact that it took him a decade to realize I was five foot four and plump instead of a five-foot-ten pole dancer with big tits was confusing.

Mamma does all she can,' said she, 'to make me feel myself a burden and incumbrance to the family, and the most ungrateful, selfish, and undutiful daughter that ever was born;

If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.

Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father.

It is women who act as the gatekeeper in terms of the frequency of sex. For example, it is women, not men, who decide at what point in a relationship sexual intercourse will take place and that point is later than men typically want.

There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven or eight-which was thought a little enthusiastic - and then there were the pathetic ones like me, who had parents that were just helpless to it, and bred as naturally as they might shit.

It was a delicate business, being the Not Wife.

Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.