Quotes About Expectations

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal Once upon a time.

The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It's only kids in high school who are convinced they're never going to change. There's always going to be a pep rally and there's always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-the-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered anyway.

Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won't ever make em muffins.

I always wondered about growing up. I bet it's mostly lies.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway

The audience burst into applause and hallelujahs. I kept trying to make sense of it, and kept coming up short. Here were people who routinely used their computers to stay in touch with their friends and get the news of the day, people who took weather satellites and lung transplants for granted, people who expected to live lives thirty and forty years longer than those of their great-grandparents. Here they were, falling for a story that made Santa and the Tooth Fairy look like gritty realism.

Aspirations are useless, because to aspire, is to reach. Dream, they say, but not too big. Laugh, they say, but not too loudly. Love, they say, but not too hard.

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations

Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.

Life is like this roller coaster you can't wait to be tall enough and old enough to get on. But when you get on it you realize you're afraid of roller coasters.

Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard

You will get when you deserve, not when you desire! So Accept Life and Live in the Now!

Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.