Quotes About Expectations

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

Names are not always what they seem.

In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.

The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of form, purity of style, perfection of imagery, truth to nature, clearness of statement, humanly possible situations, humanly possible people, fluent narrative, connected sequence of events

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants is back the minute it begins to rain.

But if Juliet's such a young gal, duke, my peeled head and my white whiskers is goin' to look oncommon odd on her, maybe." "No, don't you worry; these country jakes won't ever think of that.

The other day a patient told me that he had gotten into what was a very good college. 'It's not Harvard,' he said. 'Harvard's not Harvard either,' I answered.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

I thought I was white bread.

recovery from mental illness depended on the goodness, mercy, and rational behavior of others, we'd all be screwed. Peace of mind is inversely proportional to expectations. It's possible within any given moment of any given day to choose between self and sickness.

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

You know sometimes you go into something thinking you're going to make all the difference. You're going to save the situation. Make it right. But that was too much for me.

They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.

To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thing, incessantly: "Get it done, get it done." So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.