Quotes About Expectations

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the woods with a few close friends and get it done?" Halt hesitated. "Well, no...of course not." As a matter of fact, that was exactly what he had thought. A simple ceremony, a few friends, some food and drink and then he and Pauline would be a couple. But he felt that it might not be wise to admit that right now.

With most rulers, he knew, the words 'whenever it is convenient for you' meant 'right now, and five minutes ago if you can make it'.

Wishes father thought, but they don't breed evidence.

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...

For most people, media portrayals of the positive and satisfying sexual life of singles are disconnected with reality as they know it.

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways—the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Though the gods often had their own individual purposes, as a group they were unanimous in their general expectations of people: "Their servants were expected to be quiet, to keep the land in good order and to attend to the needs of their creators."[3] The gods had needs, the gods had jobs, and the gods had whims—these were all addressed in the practice of religion at the state level.

Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts—meant to be broken.

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.

In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me

La gente que pretendía que las cosas volvieran a ser como antes solía ser tremendamente ingenua.

Es que la gente parece que le tiene miedo a los estereotipos, a los lugares comunes...

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

Nothing short of religion could persuade a normal girl to make herself look so awful.

the wends n. frustration that you're not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you've worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.

the wends n. the frustration that you're not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you've worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

Mere adequacy is never adequate.

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.