Quotes About Expectations

ethnicity? And I remembered reading an article about baby boomers, how we expect the best and when we get it we worry that maybe we should have expected more, because it's all diminishing returns after a certain age.

I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment.

A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress my hairdresser, my make-up, it will work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.

Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.

Because I am a woman who understands, I am asked to understand everything, to accept everything.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

You are like me, wishing for such perfect moments, and frightened for fear of spoiling them.

Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress , my hairdresser, my make-up, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.

A cambio de fidelidad, yo le doy mi imaginación, e incluso mi talento, si se quiere. Nunca he estado satisfecha de nuestras cuentas, pero han de mantenerse.

It is the men who take the women to the circus, and they go to hear the men laugh!

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

as had been the situation on other commercial expeditions, I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.

Women [are] dwarfed not developed by competition. . . . What men did not want to do, they said was women's sphere. If a woman is natural[,] a man does not want her. This makes of woman a liar and a pretender. A woman is an actress who plays to an audience of men. They know what will be applauded and what will be hissed.

Some women are bred from the beginning to be perfect specimens for men

Characters in a novel or a play who act all the way through exactly as one expects them to... This consistency of theirs, which is held up to our admiration, is on the contrary the very thing which makes us recognise that they are artificially composed.

These scenes, when one of the parties offers more of his heart than the other wants, are always painful.

Natanael, am s?-È›i vorbesc despre aÈ™tept?ri. Am v?zut câmpia dup? arÈ™iÈ›a verii, aÈ™teptând; aÈ™teptând un pic de ploaie. Praful de pe drumuri devenise prea uÈ™or È™i fiecare adiere îl stârnea. Nu mai era nici m?car o dorin??; era o temere. P?mântul cr?pa de secet? pentru a primi mai bine ploaia. Miresmele florilor de câmpie deveneau aproape de nesuportat. Totul leÈ™ina sub soare.

Le rêve de demain est une joie, mais la joie de demain en est une autre, et rien heureusement ne ressemble au rêve qu'on s'en était fait; car c'est différemment que vaut chaque chose.

Songez que, dans nos sociétés, dans nos moeurs, tout prédestine un sexe à l'autre; tout enseigne l'hétérosexualité, tout y invite, tout y provoque, théâtre, livre, journal, exemple affiché des aînés, parade des salons, de la rue. Si l'on ne devient pas amoureux avec tout ça, c'est qu'on a été mal élevé

And mother, handmaiden to the Lord, says wear this, do that, don't do that, don't say that, sit, close your legs, wear white gloves and don't get them dirty, girls don't climb trees, girls don't run, girls don't, girls don't, girls don't; wasn't nothing girls actually did do of any interest whatsoever. It's when they get you a doll that pees that you recognize the dimensions of conspiracy, its institutional reach, its metaphysical ambition.

she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything

Why are they all trying to make me into a saint? Oh God! Oh God! I want to do things. Stop turning me into a saint.

Robert said, This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade. Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to get an A++ in social studies instead of just an A+