Quotes About Expectations

For him life has to go the certain way, otherwise he's not interested.

What I've learned since being out in the dating field is: A lot of men are really boring. Or else they're not boring, they're super-fun and exciting, but they have four other secret girlfriends they never mentioned....

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that." "I always thought my life would be a certain way," I say, gazing down at my plate.

But isn't that what every young couple thinks, and then suddenly, boom, they're old and bitter and not looking at each other properly?

anyway, who defines "real life"? Who says "real life" is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? "Shit-boring tedious life," more like.

If he does love her, then maybe he's forgotten what love is supposed to be like

Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

If I had won...all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media.

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.