Quotes About Expectations

Wij moeten niets verwachten van onze kinderen. Het woord zelf zegt het al, 'verwachten'! Alsof wij op iets moeten wachten dat er nu nog niet is. De jeugd van onze kinderen is er nu. We zijn altijd maar onderweg. We zijn hier zo kort. Laat het onderwijs alstublieft geen voorbereiding zijn op iets onduidelijks dat in de toekomst ligt.

She wanted him to be the sunshine to her clouds. She couldn't handle the idea that he had weather patterns of his own, and that he contained within himself the makings of a downpour and possibly even a monsoon.

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

Now I knew that joy was a kind of fearlessness, a letting go of expectations that the world should be anything other than what it was.

I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.

But that would be terrible queer, Anne. And what would Mrs Harmon Andrews say? Ah, there's the rub, sighed Anne. There are so many things in life we cannot do because of the fear of what Mrs Harmon Andrews would say. What delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs Harmon Andrews!

Won't you try to remember you're a lady? she pleaded. Oh, if there were only any hope of being able to forget it

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it.The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

And when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always

You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming, said Marilla. The trouble with you, Anne, is that you'll expect to teach those children everything and reform all their faults right off, and if you can't you'll think you've failed.

Dear friends and family, This year we did not get engaged. We acquired no pet, and we did not produce a child. We did not buy a car or house. We did not take the package deal. We did not join the club. We did not order the special. We never multiplied our miles. We had some arguments, that's true. There was so much we did not see. We did not know. We did not understand. At times we drank heavily. Happy holidays to all! xoo, Lane and Gil.

Quando un'ex si sposa, una donna può ridere. Al secondo comincia a innervosirsi. Ma a tre? Diventa una questione personale: cosa c'è in me che impedisce a un uomo di sborsare una bella sommetta in nome dell'eterno amore. [...] È come i coperchi sigillati. Sai com'è, ti ammazzi di fatica per aprire un barattolo a pressione e il coperchio non cede. Non appena lo passi a un altro puoi stare sicura che il coperchio salterà via da solo.

To those of us accustomed to newspaper headlines, 'PIZZAS' in inverted commas suggests these might be pizzas, but nobody's promising anything, and if they turn out to be cardboard with a bit of cheese on top, you can't say you weren't warned.

No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, Good food at it's best, you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked uo on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

Harper shook his head. "Well, I've never been treated like a girlfriend in all my life. It was a bit lowering." "Nah." Tiny shook his head. "It's a compliment. It means they don't see you as sexually threatening. You're a friend rather than a man friend." "And that's a compliment?" Harper asked doubtfully.

No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

He was, and always had been, the repository of more fears than hopes.

Outside, a dog sprawls among the empty tables, its body rocking with the evening heat. Someone has given it a hamburger which first it guards, then, eventually, eats. It's some kind of winter dog, a malamute perhaps, a dog of marvellous subtle greys and whites. Also of transparent intelligence, and less transparent motive. The beauty of an animal like this appears to fix it in our expectations. But while its beauty says one thing, its heart may say another.

The message they give to their children is: "If you don't do exactly what I want you to do I won't love you any more, and you can figure out for yourself what that might mean." It means, of course, abandonment and death.

Todas as noivas têm quinze anos.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.