Quotes About Expectations

This damn place, Natalie said, 2it always turns out not to have the things I want, after all. I get up inside and i knock over an ashtray and everyone looks at me and here I come rushing outdoors because I think it´s where I want to be, and then when I get out here it turns out to be the same old place I passed coming in Thats because you came out the same door, suggested Tony.

My girls. Girls aren't boys, you know. Boys go to school. But what do girls do? Girls are like a bunch of geese; they sit at home, eat, and wait to grow up.

Not everyone would do for a husband what I've done. All that fancy living has gone to his lordship's head.

Never let a husband off the leash. Not even a carpenter knows where the chips will fly.

I tell you, my husband, I've put up with as much as I can. Either you get yourself home in a jiffy and act like a human being—or else! As I wish my enemies an early death, so I am from the bottom of my heart, Your truly faithful wife

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

Only 16 years old, this was his first game with the Portland Winter Hawks. In fact, it was his first game in the Western Hockey League. I knew it. The fans knew it. The media knew it. Everyone knew it. Half the reason the stands were so full was because of Riley Judd, superstar.

As a fourth-line winger, I'm nearly invisible. Sure, Coach Estleman knows my name. It's Tyler Watson. He understands my style of play. He knows what to expect from me on the ice. Other than that, I tend to fade into the background for him.

It's just easier not to be noticed. That way people don't expect things from you. There's no pressure, nothing to fear.

The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

It is easy to show that the ego ideal answers to everything that is expected of the higher nature of man. As a substitute for a longing for the father, it contains the germ from which all religions have evolved.

This is how men ought to be, in order to be happy and to make others happy; but you have to reckon on their not being like that

On découvrit alors que l'homme devient névrosé parce qu'il ne peut supporter le degré de renoncement exigé par la société au nom de son idéal culturel, et l'on en conclut qu'abolir ou diminuer notablement ces exigences signifierait un retour à des possibilités de bonheur.   Il est encore une autre cause de désillusion.

Die Strenge der ethischen Forderungen würde nicht viel schaden, wenn die Erziehung sagte: So sollten die Menschen sein, um glücklich zu werden und andere glücklich zu machen; aber man muß damit rechnen, daß sie nicht so sind. Anstatt dessen läßt man den Jugendlichen glauben, daß alle anderen die ethischen Vorschriften erfüllen, also tugendhaft sind. Damit begründet man die Forderung, daß er auch so werde.

That there could be something in the world that a woman could want more than children has been viewed as unacceptable. Things may be marginally different now, but, even if there is something she wants more than children, that is no reason for a woman to remain childless. Any normal woman, it is understood, wants—and should want—both.

At times I can barely contain my anger at students. How can you be an English major and not know that you don't put a period after a question mark? Why do even graduate students not know the difference between a novel and a memoir, and why do they keep referring to full-length books as "pieces"?

I believe that fear of being a failure plays a large part in goading many women who are ambivalent about motherhood into maternity. That, and the fear of missing out

My mother sobbed. I'm not asking for that much. But she was: She was asking him to be someone else.

We thus combine unreasonable optimism about what people might be like, with unreasonable hatred of them when they are not like that (pp269)

Anyone who complains about invasion of privacy shouldn't work in the entertainment business. You can't have it both ways. It's as simple as that.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.