Quotes About Expectations

When we graduate, our first thought is not, Whom will I marry? but, What will I do? And when we do marry, we take for granted that our husbands will treat us as equals, with dreams and ambitions like theirs, and not as creatures uniquely destined to push a vacuum or change a diaper.

If previous generations of women were raised to believe that they could only realise themselves within the roles of wife and mother, now the opposite is thought true: It is only outside these roles that we are able to realise our full potential and worth as human beings.

but a perfect home was as clear a sign of dysfunction as a slovenly one.

Perfectionism is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

Previous success in any field invites high expectations and scrutiny the next time around. People are less forgiving when a winner falters than they are when an up-and-comer stumbles. But a mark of a champion is to welcome scrutiny, persevere, perform beyond expectations, and provide an exceptional product—for which forgiveness is not necessary.

It was 8am. My phone was ringing. What kind of society do we live in where someone can make your phone ring at 8am? There should be rules.

el motivo. Puede que la vida no sea la fiesta que esperabas, pero mientras estés aquí, tienes que bailar. Después de todo, la vida no se mide en minutos, sino en momentos.

los hombres no nacieron para «suponer» nada ni para entender «las indirectas», mientras que las mujeres se especializan en ellas.

Seríamos capaces de abuchear a Luciano Pavarotti si desafinara en su ópera prima, pero aplaudimos al líder de alabanza que «desafina para la gloria de Dios». Pedir

Si on attend tout de lui, on se contente finalement de peu. La moindre surprise est accueillie comme un miracle.

When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

It's so evident to me now that just because someone is a great guy doesn't guarantee we'll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.

I used to think all that game playing was par for the course and even kind of exciting. It just felt logical to pursue a boy the same way I applied to college—by expending exorbitant time and energy showing what a great catch I am and what a perfect match we'd be, so that after a lengthy waiting period I might get accepted. But now the idea of reliving any version of that charade seems like hell.

For Facebook and Twitter, we have endless amounts of money, But we haven't found anything there."

The unnecessary burden of living a life of trying to please others, which is essentially impossible, nearly killed me.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

Ce monde reste primitif, Shonsu. Ne t'attends pas à des déductions salariales, à des assurances maladie et à des plans de retraite…

Prefiero irme a la tumba sintiéndome culpable por pedir más de lo que he recibido que por perderme respuestas por no haber pedido.

When God in the Bible diverts from His normal pattern of referring to Himself as "the Lord" or "God" and adds descriptives such as "Provider" or "Healer" or "Peacemaker," then we should take note that He is describing how He will act toward us! This is how God manages our expectations of Him. This is who God is and how He will always act toward us.

It is no way to live, to wait to love.