Quotes About Expectations

No, you won't. And I won't be enough for you, Amanda. I don't want to be the center of your life. I want to be part of it. I want to be your husband, not your god. People can't always be there for you, no matter how much they want to be. And that includes me.

What about the other wifely duties? Michael glanced back at her. -When it means something more to you than work, we'll consummate the marriage

Did Honoring mean to do everything you were told without question? Did it mean swift capitulation? Did it mean giving up yourself for the sake of living out someone else's dreams? No matter what that dream was?

She glared at Mama through her tears, wondering why she couldn't be thankful instead of resentful. Hildie knew what it was like to try to please Mama, never measuring up to expectations. For once, she didn't care. "Why do you have to be so mean to him?

Me desperté de la anestesia con una sensación de profundo abandono, y le pregunté a la enfermera si era niño o niña. Me dijo que era una niña, y volví la cabeza y me eché a llorar. «Estupendo», dije, «me alegra que sea una niña. Y espero que sea tonta. Es lo mejor que en este mundo puede ser una chica: una tontita preciosa».

One would think, to look at him, that he ought to be jolly; one might think, considering his enormous wealth, that he ought to be happy; but this was not the case.

Should' is my all time least favorite word. It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in it — to remember, to keep in mind — as they make their way up the hill. If you hand them a yellow Volkswagen and they have to haul this to the top of the mountain — to the end of the story — and they find that this Volkswagen has nothing whatsoever to do with your story, you're going to have a very irritated reader on your hands.

Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

So I had a son! Jessica flared. And she knew she was being goaded into this anger deliberately. You were told to bear only daughters to the Atreides. It meant so much to him, Jessica pleaded.

To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

The expectations which history creates for one generation are often shattered in the next generation.

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities

La prudenza è la via della mediocrità. La mediocrità priva di passioni è tutto ciò che tanta gente crede di poter raggiungere.

La cautela es el camino de la mediocridad. Una mediocridad que fluye sin pasiones es el máximo que la mayoría de la gente cree ser capaz de alcanzar".

I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.

HIGH SCHOOL IS THE PENALTY FOR TRANSGRESSIONS YET TO BE SPECIFIED

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

Failure is one of those things that 'serious people' dread. Invariably, the persons most likely to be crippled by this fear are people who have convinced themselves that they are SO bitchen they shouldn't ever be placed in a situation where they might fail. Failure is nothing to get upset about. It's a fairly normal condition; an inevitability in ninety-nine percent of all human undertakings. Success is rare—that's why people get so cranked up about it.

Não temos juventude, ficamos logo adultos, e continuamos então adultos por um tempo demasiadamente longo, vêm daí um certo cansaço e uma certa desesperança que atravessa com um vinco largo a essência no conjunto tão tenaz e cheia de esperança do nosso povo

Beni hayal k?r?kl???na u?ratan benden ba?kas? de?il.

Franz's domineering father expected his son to take up a profitable business career that would ensure social advancement for the family, as well as a successful marriage promising the same.

Dagegen kann ich jeden Augenblick beweisen, daß meine Erziehung einen anderen Menschen aus mir machen wollte als den, der ich geworden bin. Den Schaden also, den mir meine Erzieher nach ihrer Absicht hätten zufügen können, den mache ich ihnen zum Vorwurf, verlange aus ihren Händen den Menschen, der ich jetzt bin, und da sie ihn mir nicht geben können, mache ich ihnen aus Vorwurf und Lachen ein Trommelschlagen bis in die jenseitige Welt hinein. Doch

Si resumes lo que piensas de mí, el resultado es que no me echas en cara nada propiamente inmoral o malo (a excepción tal vez de mi último proyecto matrimonial), pero sí frialdad, rareza, ingratitud. Y me lo echas en cara de una manera como si fuese culpa mía, como si yo hubiese podido cambiarlo todo con sólo dar un giro al volante, mientras que tú no tienes la menor culpa, como no sea la de haber sido demasiado bueno conmigo.