Quotes About Expectations

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

Not having a private life is hard.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

I was of the "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn't give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff" school of thought.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who writes books and walks his dog and has a normal life.

If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

Life is a great disappointment.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

Leonardo DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.