Quotes About Expectations

somewhere in his murkiest depths, he wasn't so much afraid of being left again as condemning someone else to second best.

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 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. Often

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.

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. Often

They tell us to "be ourselves," but if you listen closely, there's more to that sentence: ". . . until you make them uncomfortable.

Society readily accepts that a father can't be expected to raise a child alone, without help; yet a mother is completely different. For a mother to claim she couldn't do it, well, that's unacceptable.

The problem with making heroes out of humans is that when they eventually act like humans, everyone is disappointed.

He turns the pages from right to left. He begins at the beginning and ends at the end. This makes a quirky sense to me—but Mikio and I are definitely in the minority here. And how can we two be right? It would make so many others wrong. Water moves upward. It seeks the highest level. What did you expect? Smoke falls. Things are created in the violence of fire. But that's all right. Gravity still pins us to the planet.

I came of age in the Sixties, when there were chances, when it was all there waiting. Now they seep out of school – to what? To nothing, to fuck-all. The young (you can see it in their faces), the stegosaurus-rugged no-hopers, the parrot-crested blankies – they've come up with an appropriate response to this, which is: nothing. Which is nothing, which is fuck-all. The dole-queue starts at the exit to the playground.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?, she said, I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up.

May intelligent, bookish ladies sometimes be reformed? he asked her. She thought about it. I suppose it may be within the bounds of possibility, she said, even if not of probability.

Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave.

It is hard, is it not," he said, "to have one's life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it?

You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you.

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.

But, Mameha-san, I don't want kindness!" "Don't you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you're in no position to ask.

Ako ?e ve? netko biti moj spasitelj, onda sam htjela da to bude predsjednik i nitko drugi.

Mlade devojke uvek u srcu nose svakojake nerazumne nade. Nade su kao ukras za kosu. Devojke žele da nose previše ukrasa. Kad ostare, izgledaju glupo ako nose ?ak i samo jedan.