Quotes About Expectations

a world in which we are not expected to conform to societal rules but society is expected to conform to our own acts of self-definition. That means your child reading "I Am Jazz" but never—never, Gaia forbid!—the Bible.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

I think it's ridiculous that kids have to try to decide at eighteen years old what the hell they want to be.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury -- or at least comfort -- so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

Love was love, and always demanded more than a lover was capable of giving.

Every woman should marry ... and no man.

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

He wish'd to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

I advise you to apply to all those whom you know will give something; next, to those whom you are uncertain whether they will give any thing or not, and show them the list of those who have given; and, lastly, do not neglect those who you are sure will give nothing, for in some of them you may be mistaken.

Mirth pleaseth some, to others 'tis offence, Some commend plain conceit, some profound sense; Somew ish a witty Jest, some dislike that, And most would have themselves they know not what. Then he that would please all, and himself too, Takes more in hand than he is like to do.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with ingratitude.

queria agradar a todos e, tendo muito pouco a oferecer, oferecia expectativas

He wished to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

Abusive parents have inappropriate expectations of their children, with a reversal of dependence needs. Parents treat an abused child as if the child were older than the parents. A parent often turns to the child for reassurance, nurturing, comfort, and protection and expects a loving response.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

The surest way to raise mentally healthy children is to cultivate loving, nurturing, and mutually respectful relationships with them. Loving means, first of all, accepting your child as a person. Every child has strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges. Loving means adjusting your expectations to fit your child, not trying to adjust your child to fit your expectations.

Politicians are bound to indicate what they would hope to do if they are elected to parliament, and that is a perfectly legitimate means of securing support--but they are less ready to admit that it may be impossible to fulfil their commitments once elected.

In a woman whose chief capital is her beauty, to be forty is a crime against society.