Quotes About Expectations

I'm not looking for people to put that vote on me to be prom king of the UFC.

Being deemed the most successful at prom does not mean you're going to do the best in your life.

Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

Promise less, deliver more.

In the '80s everything was accepted and there was a kind of euphoria. The '90s will be the balance-sheet decade, and only those who give the consumer what they promise will survive.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now.

There's not one person in this state who believes they are going to have a job in my administration... There's not one person who I've promised anything to.

Nothing is every promised to us, man.

I mean, you don't go into 'Bake Off' expecting anything. There's no big-money prize, no contract. It's not like 'The X Factor,' where you're promised the Earth. In a way, it's a big gamble. If you're in an ordinary job - and will have to go back to an ordinary job - it's a risk. Your bosses might not like what they see of you on TV and fire you!

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

If you add up all the promises any politicians makes, the math doesn't work.

I've had my fill of media sensationalism and false promises.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

When you're not the Steph Currys or the Kyrie Irvings of the league, long-term promises are irrelevant.

You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.

Politicians never keep all their promises.

Certainly, 3rd acts of any movie are hard. It's always hard to have something that will give you the promises from the beginning of the movie. That's true for all movies.