Quotes About Expectations

Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down.

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

guys said a date didn't count if they hadn't been laid.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

You know, I would date, if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. (Grace)

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

He should accept me as I am!" says the woman who is too nice. Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.