Quotes About Expectations

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

The fun thing with the newer characters in the movie was that anything goes. The life they brought to it just exceeded my expectations. It was just above and beyond.

I have to do what I'm supposed to do with my life. Don't think less of me.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

I sympathize with the guys who went to go see The Phantom Menace and convinced themselves that it wasn't as bad as it was. Phantom Menace is worse, I would argue, than Star Trek ever was, but we were kind of in denial. There were some beautiful shots of the Enterprise and we got to see some Klingons, so it wasn't a total disaster, but in large part it was pretty boring.

When Star Trek is hitting its stride and doing what it's supposed to do, it can be very provocative, but because it's reaching so high and trying to live up to its own expectations, it fails more than most shows.

To be clear: the West's souring mood is about the psychology of dashed expectations rather than the decline in material comforts.

I guess I always thought that's just what life was—one long series of disappointments interrupted by moments of hope.

That's the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we've even made up our minds about ourselves.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

This sounded like it would be interesting for a while, but I didn't think I would have the freedom I expected to find in academia to follow my interests wherever they led.

Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.

So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.

Between dreams stand hope and despair, which cause a feeling of relief and grief.

My feelings and thoughts that I write in your language without copyright are a charity for literature, and I certainly never carry expectations of appreciation for that. However, conveying to others that becomes your charity as well.

Promises of the leader before election build expectations in the mind of voters, after winning the election, those cause humiliation in the eyes of voters if the leader fails to fulfil that. Therefore, fly not so high that you cannot land easily; be honest with yourself.

Shaking hands with love, and passion, aspires perfumed feeling; however, shaking hands with expectations, distresses by the failure of that.

Voting the wrong ones to rule and expecting the incredible and fertile outcome, shows idiocy and wrong choice.

Maybe every man has two such women—at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart.