Quotes About Expectations

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

It was strange, Sari thought, that girls' joy in their own freedom was so often the thing that made men want to turn them into wives.

Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

Accountability is not a consequence. In order for it to become your competitive advantage, you must be willing to change what you expect from yourself and others.

Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there. I was happy for a simple start; things could only get better.

What I realized about this glorious experience, years later, is that it had forever modified my expectations. The Bombers gave me a taste of what it was like to play on an excellent team, and this had rewired my brain to believe it was my God-given right to experience the same sensation many times over.

What I realized about this glorious experience, years later, is that it had forever modified my expectations. The Bombers gave me a taste of what it was like to play on an excellent team.

The single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself.

High expectations are the key to everything.

I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

The clerk says to me, "If you're pregnant, you shouldn't eat cold cuts." Now that my belly shows, I'm public property. Strangers speak to me all the time. They tell me how I should do everything.

as if being born a girl makes her responsible for everyone alive.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I am fearful of romantic dinners, huge crowds, dusk - of normal things- afraid to be loved, the one thing I want most. Maybe it's because I don't think I deserve it because I am not that perfect little girl that I was supposed to be, well manicured and well groomed, because I have nervous breakdowns, and take pills, and keep moving on.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected.

we must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.