Quotes About Expectations

I had had my dreams of Venice. But nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

Gracias a usted ya no puedo creer en las certidumbres de los que tienen una casa, una familia, unos amigos.

The men buckled on their weapons and started outside amid high expectations, taking care not to leave their backs unguarded -- just in case -- for Jesus may have said something about brothers, but he made no mention of cousins.

Una de las ventajas que los animales poseemos sobre los humanos es que nadie nos exige ser políticamente correctos.

Sólo se trataba de cumplir las reglas —dice mientras cierra el armario—. La vida te sitúa ante ellas. Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos.

Desde muy joven había aprendido, a costa de algunas rápidas desilusiones propias, una lección crucial: las mujeres se sentían atraídas por los caballeros, pero preferían irse a la cama con los canallas. Era matemático. —¿Te

Me enamoré de la democracia, ¿qué le parece?… Pero es una mujer que paga mal.

No wonder she dated Asher. They probably did weirdly specific things together at weirdly specific times. Coffee at exactly 7:03 a.m. Double-toasted cinnamon raisin bagels with extra cream cheese at 8:26 a.m. Hot yoga at 10:17 a.m. Avocado toast and aragula salad at 1:34 p.m. Dinner at that vegan place down the street at 7:35 p.m. Sex at 9:48 p.m. Everyone loves a well-planned kink, right? ''I'm scheduling you at eleven o'clock, baby. You know what happens if you're late''.

I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.

Growth firms get more of their value from investments that they expect to make in the future and less from investments already made.

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Esperar que esteja tudo certo na vida, esperar resolver todos os meus problemas para ser feliz é um paradoxo inaceitável. Vou morrer infeliz.

Quién exige demasiado de sí y de los otros es apto para trabajar en un banco, pero no para tener una bella historia de amor con su propia salud emocional.

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

fame gives you everything you never wanted.

What I'd really like to say about stardom is it gave me everything i never wanted.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.