Quotes About Expectations

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Weil ich keinen Bock habe, in einen übergewichtigen Kerl verknallt zu sein, der Chuck heißt und in irgendeinem Vorort von Detroit bei seiner Mutter im Keller lebt.

That's the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

The anarch nurtures no expectations. He stakes on no one but himself. Basically, people remain pied pipers, whatever melodies they play to introduce themselves. And as for the rats - that is a chapter unto itself.

Überhaupt setzt die literarische Bildung Maßstäbe, die in der Realität nicht ausgefüllt werden können; das Spielfeld wird zu weit gesteckt.

You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you...

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Jack's height comes from his mom. She has one of those weird "I'm taller than my husband" things going on. I find it weird anyway. Probably because I'm five foot two, and in order to marry someone shorter than me, I'd have to start searching the ranks of little people.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect.

He's younger than you are," she told Mami. "You should be ashamed.

I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

That which I give thought to and that which I believe or expect—is.

You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.

Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?

Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.

We expect one person to give us what once an entire village used to provide, and we live twice as long.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.