Quotes About Expectations

They're not going far. You wait and see. Ten years from now they'll still be hanging around with their dirty laundry, looking for a hot meal. Kids these days don't really grow up. Have you noticed, Nash? They don't worry about the future. But surprise, the future's here, isn't it? It's all so goddamned different. We grew up so fast. We had to

Troubles always ensue when assumptions clash, when expectations do not match.

The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women want and what they can do. It is time to do the same for men. WHAT

a man complicates his life by the pursuit of a fancied ideal which, when attained, proves comically different from his expectations.

We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find." "Don't hold your breath," she said. He stepped toward her casually, amusement flickering around his lips. She tensed, her eyes checking for a way to run. "Or..." His hand lashed out, grabbed her, and whipped her into his arms, where he held her tight. "We can take it fast and rough.

Andy crouched disconsolately before Judge Hardy. "Dad, I don't understand these modern girls. Polly won't let you kiss her at all, but this Cynthia, she'll let you kiss her whenever you want, all the time.

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As with all the strategies in this book, we must recognize that no strategy can turn us into perfectly rational actors. In addition, we can make the best possible decisions and still not get the result we want.

Teller realizes that when you're building pedestals, you are also accumulating sunk costs that make it hard to quit even as you find out that you may not be able to train the monkey to juggle those torches.

Yo también caí en la trampa de la mujer total, orgullosa de ser por fin capaz de conciliarlo todo, la subsistencia, un hijo y tres cursos de lengua francesa, guardiana del hogar y dispensadora del saber, superwoman, no solo intelectualmente hablando, en resumidas cuentas, armónica. Vía libre al lirismo cuando lo demás, la reflexión en particular, ha desaparecido.

Organization, the watchword of women everywhere, magazines overflowing with advice, save time, do this, that and the other... but it's really a method of sticking yourself with the most work possible in the least amount of time without pain or suffering because that would bother those around you.

Uma ideia fixa: "O que vão pensar da gente?" (os vizinhos, os clientes, todo mundo). A regra básica era sempre dar um jeito de escapar à crítica dos outros, sendo muito educado, não emitindo opiniões, ou vigiando o tempo todo o próprio temperamento, para não deixar escapar nada que pudesse ser julgado pelos outros.

Qué hacer de esta verdad: que soy nula, que no doy la talla en la vía en la que me he iniciado

I thought that all men existed just so they could have accidents, drink too much, and die. I thought that I was lucky to be a girl.

Dans une époque où la distinction entre les deux importait extrêmement et conditionnait l'attitude des garçons à l'égard des filles, il se montrait avant tout pragmatique, assuré en outre de ne pas me mettre enceinte puisque je l'étais déjà.

Ils se sentaient toutefois le droit de faire la leçon aux imprévoyants ou de menacer l'enfant que sa mère envoyait exprès aux courses à sa place en fin de semaine, sans argent : « Dis à ta mère qu'elle tâche de me payer, sinon je ne la servirai plus. » Ils ne sont plus ici du bord le plus humilié.

Quand j'étais enfant, le luxe, c'était pour moi les manteaux de fourrure, les robes longues et les villas au bord de la mer. Plus tard, j'ai cru que c'était de mener une vie d'intellectuel. Il me semble maintenant que c'est aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion pour un homme ou une femme

Soir, 8 h 45. C'est très dur, bien plus, je crois, que pour P., il y a quatre ans, l'été. Il est clair que s'il ne m'appelle pas ce soir (alors qu'il devait m'appeler hier), c'est fini.

Comme la plupart des parents, les miens s'imaginaient détecter infailliblement au premier coup d'Å"il le moindre signe de dérive.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be.

We teach others how to treat us.