Quotes About Expectations

The role of Miss World is one that my daughter has fulfilled to the best of her abilities.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

You do get a lot of people complaining if you don't do songs they have come to expect. I have to be careful about fulfilling that side of things and keeping it fresh for other people who have come to see the show.

I'm an actress but it's not fulfilling me in the way I thought it would.

From minute one, I thought that after I called a game, I said 'Man, I thought I would enjoy calling a game a little more than I probably did.' I thought I would enjoy that part of it. I didn't have the fulfillment that I thought I probably would.

I wear false eyelashes at work so I get used to that fuller look all the time, so when I get home, I'm like 'ugh, it's not the same.'

In my experience, women are conditioned to expect and accept that life will not only let them down, but they themselves will be the reason for their own downfall in the fullness of time.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

There are those airports which make you feel better, and there are those airports that, when you go there, your heart sinks: you can't wait to get out of there. They both function as airports, but it's the things that you can't measure that make them different.

It's a ridiculous function of modern work life that we can't just be sick, we then have to beat ourselves up about being sick.

To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.

What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.

If you think meet-and-greets are fundamentally stupid, then you're never not gonna think that.

I try not to listen to the other comedians performing before me because they will probably be funnier than me.

I'm never going to write fart jokes, because I feel like I have a responsibility to the audience to give them good stuff. I should be able to come up with something funnier than any third-grade boy could think of.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

It seems a commonly received idea among men and even among women themselves that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love, the want of an object, a general disgust, or incapacity for other things, to turn a woman into a good nurse. This reminds one of the parish where a stupid old man was set to be schoolmaster because he was past keeping the pigs.

Why can't people have what they want? the things were all there to content everybody. Yet everybody has the wrong thing.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

Gente egoísta é que diz isso. Chama de egoísta todo mundo que não faz o que eles querem.

And feigned innocence, the vise that keeps women "girls" well into their sixties.

Horrid Henry scowled. Typical teacher. You're interested enough in what they're saying to ask a question, and suddenly they don't want to answer.