Quotes About Expectations

I wish I could make myself more riveting but I'm quite standard, as the name suggests.

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

I almost wish I hadn't been painted in such a light that I was just hardcore and that I couldn't deliver a good match in the ring.

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Call me old-fashioned, but armpit hair is not high up there on my wish list of things to have.

Because my parents are Muslim, there's no doubt they wished I would marry someone Muslim.

My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

My dad would tell me stories about when he was an underground fighter. One day when I was 11, he told me he wished he had a son who could have been a real boxer.

Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

The WB never treated us well, so we didn't expect a lot of farewell wishes and flowers or cards.

There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it's like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.

I remember I was, like, 6 years old when I found out that I was having a little brother, and I was wishing and wishing for a sister. When my mom came out and my dad, and they're like, 'It's a boy,' Spencer, my twin brother, is cheering and jumping up and down, and then I burst into tears. I was so sad. I was crying.