Quotes About Expectations

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.

Anything a person chases in life runs away.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Success will ruin your life.

I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.

In real life, holidays are extremely stressful. They're the best of times and worst of times because you have got people trying to get along with people that you don't always get along with.

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

The balanced life is a goal, but for us it is mostly a myth.

Suppose there aren't any more A + days once you get to be twelve? Wouldn't that be something! To spend the rest of your life looking for an A + day and not finding it.

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away?

I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.

After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.