Quotes About Expectations

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

That's just you trying to get away with shit, Ronald. You know damn well that a naggy wife is really just a lousy husband.

We're very comfortable thinking, good parenting in, good children out.

Idols aren't just stone statues. No, idols are the thoughts, desires, longings, and expectations that we worship in the place of the true God. Idols cause us to ignore the true God in search of what we think we need.

The world feeds us a steady diet of it's-okay-if-you-are-a-nice-person sprinkled with a bit of if-you-try-your-hardest and topped with a strong drink of you-meant-well.

Given the conflicting messages we receive about what it takes to be "good enough," it's not surprising that Christians are as plagued by depression and anxiety as the general population.

Do not expect everyone to agree with all your thoughts, actions, speeches, write-ups and publications. For, some people are bound to tear and pull you down to pieces. That is to say, some people must harshly criticize all or some of your opinions and actions. -Emeasoba George

Hope is a river full of expectations or anticipations. Therefore, do dive into it and swim as long as you live. Even if whatever you are doing presently seems abortive. For, surely a hopeful life is bound to be a successful life. Yes! It is a matter of time. But contrariwise, a hopeless life is likely to emerge a worthless life. So, be hopeful and remain hopeful for life and never hopeless. -Emeasoba George

I just hate feeling like there's some timeline trying to tell me when I have to get to each new step. It feels like everyone's taking the elevator up to some secret penthouse party, and I'm not even allowed to take a peek. And if everyone goes up before I do, will they lock the door?

I just think sometimes we lose friendships because we expect things to fall into place, but sometimes, the pieces are stubborn and you have to move them yourself.

Cerul senin ne oblig? la mai multe întrist?ri decât cel cenuÈ™iu, c?ci ne pune în faÈ›a prea multor speranÈ›e la care n-avem curajul pe când ultimul ne îngroap? f?r? speranÈ›e.

?i ce mai pot a?tepta de la lumea aceasta acei care sunt dincolo de normal, via?a, singur?tatea, disperarea sau moartea?

Ar trebui introdus? pedeapsa cu moartea pentru oamenii care întârzie. Nu toat? lumea sufer? de angoas?, e adev?rat; c?ci punctualitatea e o tr?s?tur? a angoasatului. Ca s? ajung la timp aÈ™ fi în stare s? comit o crim?. Fie el È™i geniu, cel care nu e punctual la întâlnire e "terminat" în ochii mei. Niciodat? n-am s? m? apuc de vreo treab? cu el.

The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us to be posted in the schools.

Society - an inferno of saviors!

My faculty for disappointment surpasses understanding.

To live in solitude means to relinquish all expectations about life. The only surprise in solitude is death.

Ya te cansaste de andar descalza de pie y pierna, como las mujeres de bien, ¿eh, condenada? ¿Llevó medias alguna vez tu madre? ¿Peinóse como tú, que siempre estás dale que tienes con el cacho de espejo? Toma, para que te acuerdes...".

Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it makes it better When you sit her down and tell her Everything gonna be all right She knows in society she either is A devil or an angel with no in between She speaks in the third person So she can forget that she's me

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

You would have been happy with a wife who adored you, not someone who clung on to you like a life raft on a stormy sea and then wished she could cast you aside and move on when she reached land.

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

The evening passed away better than Helen had expected. Lord Teviot's gallop had put him into better humour; and Helen's spirits rose when she was dressed for dinner. I have often observed that the petty vexations and worries of the early part of the day are taken off and folded neatly up with the morning gown; and a fresh fit of spirits and good-humour put on with the evening adornments. It is a change for the better, personally and mentally.

What could be more absurd than to assemble a crowd to witness a man and woman promising to love each other for the rest of their lives, when we know what human creatures are, — men so thoroughly selfish and unprincipled, women so vain and frivolous?