Quotes About Expectations

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

Indian car buyers have not really been exposed to customer care in a competitive environment.

My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'

Maintenant que nous (les femmes) pouvons devenir parfois, dans certains pays et dans certaines circonstances, des Hommes comme les autres, ce caractère qu'on croyait inné apparaît pour ce qu'il est : un conditionnement imposé.

The cost estimate of the prospectus turned out to be a best possible outcome based on the unlikely assumption that everything would go according to plan with no delays, no changes in performance specifications, no management problems, no problems with contractual arrangements or new technologies or geology, no major conflicts, no political promises not kept, and so on.

his father's punishments were driven by disappointment, partly in the boy, mostly in himself.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

How could this happen in a beautiful place like Glen Ridge? What made a bunch of friendly, likeable boys, boys from fine families, boys with every imaginable advantage, do such a thing?

Whenever Leslie wanted to talk about something else: basketball practice drills, vacationing in the Bahamas, Mari Carmen rerouted Leslie back to sex, the ultimate destination being March 1, 1989. To keep Mari as a friend, Leslie had to generate more and more sexual juice. When Leslie ran out of sexual anecedotes (truth or fable was anybody's guess), Mari would yawn audibly and end the conversation.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Megan should have been grateful and accepted her cute status, what girl doesn't want to be told how lovely she is, how special? except it felt wrong, even at a young age, something in her realized that her prettiness was supposed to make her compliant, and when she wasn't, when she rebelled, she was letting down all those invested in her being adorable

I was grateful to have him to support and steer me, even though he wasn't particularly good-looking or with a dashing personality, both attributes I'd imagined for a husband before I was mature enough to accept that it was easier to dream than it was to make the dream come true

So Bibi had been born a man and was now a woman, Megan had wondered, daren't ask, she might bite her head off And Megan was a woman who wondered if she should have been born a man, who was attracted to a woman who'd once been a man, who was now saying gender was full of misguided expectations anyway, even though she had herself transitioned from male to female This was such head fuckery

if she can't get a proper boyfriend at nineteen what hope is there for when she's older?

Yazz sometimes has sleepless nights worrying she'll be alone for the whole of her life if she can't get a proper boyfriend at nineteen what hope is there for when she's older?

Had my child been a clergyman's probably he would have been strangled at birth.

Women were always ready to give themselves over for love, when all the men really had to offer them was the word and not the meaning behind it.

You see, no one ever told her to keep her legs closed and crossed at the ankles. No one ever said: "Save it for the one you love" or "Good girls say no.

Um grande obstáculo em um relacionamento de um casal é a fantasia da perfeição, a exigência de que o outro deve ser perfeito ou de que eu mesmo devo ser perfeito.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end.

when you search for romance you often find disappointment!

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.