Quotes About Expectations

In giving birth, I knew that I would have to take a break after I had a baby; I just didn't know that it would be, like, six weeks long. Taking a six-week break was a very big deal for me. I have never taken that long of a break from stand-up other than my honeymoon, which was 14 days long.

I graduated with all honors, and I was about to take the LSATs, and I was working at a law firm, and I hated it.

I was in honors classes in high school. I'd get an A on every test, but I had a 1.9 grade point average. The teacher would say, 'You didn't do your homework.' I'd say, 'But isn't the homework supposed to be the lead-up to the test?'

Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'

It's a great honour to make a lot of histories, to be No.1 player in Japan but that never gives me the pressure.

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you.

Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.

We got married in 1987; it was really Ross that wanted to get married. I had hoped I might find someone rich and never have to work again, and I could see that was not going to be the case with Ross.

I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B.

Life has not turned out as I hoped it would.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time.

Hopefully I won't be 35 still playing a 16-year-old.

My father was a doctor, so I thought I was going to be a doctor, too, but I couldn't do maths; I couldn't do science. I was hopeless at chemistry.

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

I feel like if you don't put too much expectations and too much high hopes into things, everything will fall into place.

We have high hopes from 'Zakhmi.' People will definitely like the movie.

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

As a captain, I am concerned about my team and how I perform. I have hopes from my own self and very high hopes from my team members.

You don't get into a relationship just for the sake of having a boyfriend. Of course, you have hopes and dreams that your first relationship will be your last.

My constant advice to my family - 'hopes high, expectations low' - is based on the idea that we can try our best to be perfect, but sometimes good enough has to be good enough.