Quotes About Expectations

He had counted so carefully. He had abided by the rules, but life had cheated. This world was not like the world of his stories.

Divorced?' 'Separated.' He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")

never sit in the first row at the ballet.

Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

Just because you're on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think you're perfect, and it's obvious that nobody's life really is.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

In real life I'm a poor dressmaker and a terrible cook, anything in fact but the perfect wife.

Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live.

Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.