Quotes About Expectations

Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty. -Tally Youngblood

She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

We are never content with portraits of people we know. For that reason I have always felt sorry for portrait painters. We rarely ask the impossible of anyone, but of them we do. They are required to get everybody's relationship with the subject, everybody's affection or dislike, into the picture; and not merely represent their own view of a person but what everybody else's might be too.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

I bimbi non mantengono quel che promettono, i giovani mantengono assai di rado la parola e quando lo fanno è il mondo a non mantenerla con loro.

Il destino non è stato benevolo con me e chi mi ama non ha forse molto di meglio da attendersi.

Man dreams of putting penis between girl's boobs. Is all mankind diminished? Or strengthened? What do you want? I want a pair of orange pants and a pair of orange and white shoes to go with them. I know nothing will work out unless I get them, but I also know that if I do get them I probably won't wear them to a dogfight.

Research indicates that employees around the world have expectations for professional development. Ultimate responsibility for career development rests with the employee. It is up to him or her to take advantage of the opportunities offered.

once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you did—and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?

He was going to live with his Uncle Jonathan, whom he had never met in his life. Of course, Lewis had heard a few things about Uncle Jonathan, like that he smoked and drank and played poker. These were not such bad things in a Catholic family, but Lewis had two maiden aunts who were Baptists, and they had warned him about Jonathan.

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her.

Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance there is judgment.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them—after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

But the measuring up came first, not the love--don't marry for money, but marry where money is. Did men think like this? No, they didn't. They fell in love; then imagined that because they were in love, the girl would automatically measure up to their requirements too. They couldn't really love someone just as they were. And then when they found out that they hadn't got the person they had wanted--which was little wonder, since she'd never existed--the trouble started.

There's only so much to a lifetime and often it lets you down when you're best geared for going on.

Toffler's Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.

Over the years, I have been disappointed at times, but more often it has been my low expectations of people that have been upset.

fundos geridos por] jovens brilhantes e dinâmicos que prometiam realizar milagres com o dinheiro das outras pessoas, […] [mas] que no fim inevitavelmente geraram prejuízos para o público".

Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans & expectations. It is a separation from all we have loved and lived with. It is often accompanied by much bodily pain and distress. It opens the door to judgement and eternity - to heaven or to hell. It is an event after which there is no change, or space for repentance

You can go to thousand schools, and it's always the same. Because the standard rule of thumb is: There's the girls over here, and there's the boys over there. Separated. Which direction [do I go]?

Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was prepared, at a pinch, to forgo the tiger-skins. Unfortunately the beautiful women seemed equally rare and inaccessible. At his office and at his boarding-house the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.

He had counted so carefully. He had abided by the rules, but life had cheated.