Quotes About Expectations

As he talked, I watched Emma and wondered what is to become of her. She is of an age to be married but she spends her time with people who are so much older than she, that she is never likely to meet a husband. And if she does, I do not know if she will wish to marry. She is too comfortable where she is. Her father is easy to please and she can do as she likes with the household. A husband will have his own views, and Emma is not likely to take to that way of living.

Your children will be wild and undisciplined. Your daughters will run off with stable hands and your sons will become attorneys.

Her mother had always warned her a man is judged by his best moment, a woman by her worst.

Plans have a way of coming apart when you lean om 'em

Promises are like flowers, often given, rarely kept

You are too full of your own hopes to hold anyone else's.

Years, back, when they first made him a sergeant, he'd imagined the officers much have all the answers. When he was given his commission, he'd imagined the generals must have all the answers. When King Orso made him a general, he'd imagined the Closed counsel bust have all the answers. Now, as a lord marshal, he finally knew it for an absolute fact. No one had the answers. Worse. There weren't any.

As far as I'm concerned you can fuck whomever you please, though my general observation has been that, as far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on.

have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

No debería haberse permitido albergar ilusiones, pero las esperanzas son como las malas hierbas, que siguen apareciendo por muchas veces que las desbroces.

The ones you like straight away rarely turn out to be your favourites.

La belleza de hacerte promesas a ti misma es que nadie más se queja si no las cumples.

If you build your boat from cheese, d'you see, you can't wail at the heavens when it sinks, for cheese is known to be a poor material for boat-building.

A wise man once told me you have to be realistic.

A cock's not for pleasing yourself, boy, it's for pleasing others. Maybe that's where you're going wrong.

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort. All

far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on." "Huh.

Vengeance is never halfway as simple, or halfway as sweet, as you think it's going to be.

God! Why did she insist on demanding from people what she knew they could never give her? Why did she insist on making the same mistakes over and over? Why was she fooled so easily every time? Because she wanted to be fooled.

Your trouble is, you've got yourself an idea about how life should be, but it's just not how life IS.

It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she'd left that Lowlander's arm, and it was no one's fault but her own. She shouldn't have let herself hope, but hopes are like weeds: however often you root them out they keep on springing up.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments." - Sand dan Glokta

Well." Glokta looked towards the summer revellers. So near to them, yet somehow in a different world. "I have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

I would ask you to look into your heart." "Oh, mine's a very small one. People who seek for anything of much significance in there are inevitably disappointed.