Quotes About Expectations

It's amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.

It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf.

And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?

I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.