Quotes About Expectations

It's upsetting when the nice bloke you really like turns out to be a complete, lying, two-timing bastard. But it's nearly as bad when the bloke that you thought was an unreliable heartbreaker turns out to be uncomplicated and nice.

mistakenly thinking that if you improve your hair you can improve your life.

and Liam was a dead loss from day one, thinking he'd be

It's a curse being dad's 'clever' child. He reads books the way other people take cold showers – they're good for you, but you're not expected to enjoy them.

I'll be fifty and, seriously, what's the age when a person finally feels safe and secure? Because I really thought it would have happened by now.

Maar wie denkt, zal niets ervaren, dat is bekend. Onze zintuigen laten zich net commanderen. De beleving is er alleen voor degene die in staat is te zijn als een kind, hier, op dit moment, open en zonder verwachtingen.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.

Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a 'little lady' forgets her place.

I conquered outer worlds just as he had. I expressed masculine strength and power just as he had. But it didn't bring me closer to him or to others like him because I had become one of the guys, and that's not what most men are looking for. He had never loved me for being a great guy.

He repeated his question. "Your love life?" "Same old, you know. Nothing out there. All the good men are gay.

What bothered her was not that the tasks that had to be done were exerting. It was not even that they were tedious. It was that she felt that the three others lived their lives and she went around after them cleaning up their mess. She was an unpaid servant, expected to do a superlative job. In return, she was permitted to call this house hers. But so did they.

Life felt hideously empty. But she told herself that was only because women are educated to think that marriage will be a sudden panacea to all emptiness, and although she'd fought off such notions, she had no doubt been infected by them.

In St. Louis one of the girls had said to her, Just pretend you're pretty so they can pretend you're pretty.

I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything.

He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~

So often I have known, right there in the pulpit, even as I read the words, how far they fell short of any hopes I had for them.

There were two further points I felt I should have made in our earlier conversations, one of them being that doctrine is not belief, it is only one way of talking about belief, and the other being that the Greek word sozo , which is usually translated saved, can also mean healed, restored, that sort of thing. So the conventional translation narrows the meaning of the word in a way that can create false expectations.

Well, you know, that's good of you to say, but it's not always wise to make promises. There can be a lot more involved in keeping them than it seems at the time.

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.

None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it's too hard a life.

That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series.