Quotes About Expectations

Why couldn't he get a straight answer from any of them? Because this was Sicily, he thought. Sicilians had a horror of truth.

You don't know women, Pippi said. if they like you, you can piss in the sink. If they don't like you, you can make them the Queen of England and they'll shit on you.

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past," he remembered the Don lecturing him. "You must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future

Above all, do not say anything intelligent. Gentlemen abhor intelligent women.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

We swear we see each other, but all we are ever able to make out is a tiny porthole view of an ocean. We think we remember the past, but our memories are as fantastic and flimsy as dreams. It's so easy to hate the pretty one, worship the genius, love the rockstar, trust the good girl. That's never their only story.

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.

You know men!! As soon as you give in to them, they ignore you.

pressure to succeed is especially acute for youth ministers, who—despite their lack of knowledge, skills and experience—are expected to attract young adolescents to a life of commitment to Christ and the church. It is a daunting task made increasingly difficult by the expectations of adults and a notable lack of congregational support.

My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

One of the things I have always appreciated about the Buddhism I have known is the way it has urged me to circumvent my own expectations about what an "enlightened" response might be in any given situation.

I felt silly to be falling into such an obvious trap of letting my expectations interfere with what was actually happening, but I also felt an all-too-familiar sadness creeping up from my chest to my eyes. In the stillness of the retreat I saw how I did this a lot: envisioning how something, or someone, had to be perfect, and then being disappointed when they failed, pulling myself back into a sullen remove.

She understood now. You got married in spite of your wedding not because of it.

I had tried so hard to please that I never realized no one was watching.

I tried so hard to please that I never realized no one is watching.

But when we believe that only what we want holds the gold, then we find ourselves easily depressed by what we lack. Then we are pained by what we perceive as the difference between here and there, between what we have and what we need.

Try to be all things to all people, and you may just wind up being nothing much to hardly anyone.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge. We should just say, poor Camille, she turned into a bitch the way most people would have—and stay out of her way.

As well, there's the age-old syndrome common to fans of musicians with passionate and discerning cult followings. When the objects of adulation are crass enough to become popular, they quickly become a case of "used to be good.

What are our expectations? Which of the things we desire are within reach? If not now, when? and will there be some left for me?

It's like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you—just so she can't point the finger directly at you should she later test positive for clap.

Pela primeira vez vi como dois tipos amados, divertidos e famosos podem acabar por ser menos amados, não tão divertidos e muito menos famosos por tentar fazer nada mais do que aquilo que os amigos lhes disseram que eles eram bons a fazer. Tenho a certeza que se desfizeram amizades. Amigalhaços leais deixaram de aparecer, causando sentimentos reais de traição e amargura. No fim, acho eu, todos nós os deixámos mal.

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.