Quotes About Expectations

the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.

I'm just a collection of mirrors, reflecting what everyone else expects of me.

where rejection is present with neurotic anxiety, we found a certain constellation always present: The rejection was never accepted as an objective fact, but was held in juxtaposition with idealized expectations about the parent. The young woman was unable to appraise the parent realistically, but always confused the reality situation with expectations of what the parent should have been or might yet become.

She must have said to herself that one can always rely on a gentleman when it's a question of not understanding a woman.

I should've known it," he groaned. "The moment you pick up a bare-assed stripper from the Crazy Horse, she's bound to be religious.

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

I suppose that was an old-fashioned stereotyped female thing to do. Tidying up before letting you in.

History has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.

Not our expectations of students, but our expectations for students.

Mary Agnes had been saving her money for two years…and perhaps her parents had been saving up for her wedding for the past twenty. And it was over in five hours, with nothing left but an album of photographs and a reel or two of movie film and a dress that would have to be kept in a box with moth balls, and a million confused and blurred memories.

When pressured, my mother told me that God just hadn't sent her any more children, but most of the time she liked to say that I was so perfect she knew she could never have another one like me, so she had stopped. Whenever she told me I was perfect, I wondered what was so terrible about me that she would have to lie this way to cover up.

You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will.

Boys will be boys," he said. When the door of the elevator shut, Reagan said to Hresko, "But boys will not be president.

Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

La insatisfacción de los humanos, ese querer siempre algo más, algo mejor, algo distinto, es el origen de innumerables desdichas. Además, la #Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda. Es una casi nada que lo es todo.

For most teenage girls, guys are everything. Boys validate their existence; they define who they are and where they stand in the world. You can talk to boys differently than your girlfriends. Until they screw you over, they can be really fun and comforting.

Both parents turned toward their son and waited. The boy said nothing. "You see?" said his father, and went on to elaborate the image; the boy had closeted himself, and the father wanted more of something—more information, more contact.

Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself.

And so when they tell you that I was heartless, a shameless man-chaser, don't ever forget this: I loved what I saw. And yes, it is true that I've done all the things they say. That's not what gets them. What aggravates them is I've never shed one solitary tear. I'm not sorry. That's unnatural. As we all know, a woman is supposed to cry.

A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple, she'll never go very far.

That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I

Wat het leven in feite zo dodelijk vermoeiend maakt is misschien de geweldige inspanning die we op moeten brengen om twintig, veertig jaar en nog wel langer redelijk te blijven, om niet gewoon volkomen jezelf te zijn, dat wil zeggen abject, wreed en absurd. 't Is een nachtmerrie als jij, strompelende stumperd die je in werkelijkheid bent, van 's ochtends vroeg tot 's avonds laat maar steeds de superman moet spelen, wat ergens toch wel het ideaal van deze wereld is.

Nell found adults to be constrained. It was as if sometime during their late youth, someone had drawn a box for them to step into. The box had four sides, a bottom, and a top; the adult would hop in—willingly, it seemed—and never get out again.

We cut and sell the apple tree's branches and then are shocked there's no fruit.