Quotes About Expectations

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

I loved him. And he thought that meant that he had no responsibilities.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

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.

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

Chips on shoulder, all that, everybody plays the game for different reasons. You've got to prove yourself every time you go out there. That's the reality.

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.