Quotes About Expectations

I've always wondered why people who love you do that to you – give you photographs where they look beautiful, you not so much.

People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket.

Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.

Why could she not emulate his sisters: marry and concentrate on babies? He gloomily suspected that she had that plan lined up for him.

Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

E quando rimani incastrato in questo ingranaggio, per non deludere, la prima bugia chiama la seconda, e poi vai avanti tutta la vita...

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.

You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.

Por lo demás, el hecho de que una dama de la aristocracia inglesa se venga a nuestro domicilio y se desnude por completo para hablar con nosotros ocurre todos los días y ya no le extraña a nadie.

Si das amor a cambio de compañía, resígnate a perder las dos.

En nuestro país, a causa de la escasa experiencia en tentativas de transformar la historia en novela, se exige todavía a los libros que sean legibles y sobre todo que se entiendan. Es decir, que estén al nivel mental de quienes los lean, lo que nos lleva a que se jaleen, con alegría irresponsable, obras de escritores poco exigentes, aunque ese vergonzoso jaleo, por fortuna, no todo el mundo lo acepta, o mejor dicho, llega a entenderlo

los lectores les fallan a los escritores cuando sólo buscan en éstos la confirmación de que el mundo es como lo ven ellos...

En España, la movilidad es muy difícil: te marcan de por vida en la casilla que creen que te corresponde.

Pero si un día encontrara ese autor tan buscado, ese fantasma, ese genio, difícilmente éste mejoraría lo ya dicho por tantos otros acerca de las grietas que separan las expectativas de la juventud y la realidad de la madurez, lo ya dicho por tantos otros sobre la naturaleza ilusoria de nuestras elecciones, sobre la decepción que culmina la búsqueda de logros, sobre el presente como fragilidad y el futuro como dominio de la vejez y de la muerte.

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses but talks about what he'll do if he wins and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins but knows what he'll do if he loses.

In short, a diamond bracelet is a much more honest instrument of courtship than a perforated stomach. She has the option of throwing the jewelry back at him, but she cannot decently walk out on the ulcer. ("Look How Hard I've Been Trying")

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.