Quotes About Expectations

Toda generación tiene el deber de rechazar lo que sus padres esperan de ella. En

La hermosa mujer con la que soñaba compartir la vida ya tenía una vida.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travel or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else.

marriage is likely to be what is called happy if niether party ever expected to get much happiness out of it

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. And to demand too much is the surest way of getting even less than is possible.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The modern world unlearned us how to enjoy leisure time, making us think we need to be productive in order to be worthy.

You're never too old to keep failing your children, are you? Why weren't we told this was a life sentence?

But lately,' she said, wiggling her bare toes, 'I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes -- I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.

Be careful of those who allow microscopes to replace mirrors in their lives, holding you to standards you were never called to maintain.

After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

Because I was drafted high, I got the reputation of being conceited, like I'm too good for this person or that person.

I was 20 years old when I started playing in the Premier League. Maybe mentally I wasn't quite prepared for it, and that has earned me a reputation.

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn't necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that's why acting wasn't something I even considered doing, as a kid.

I don't have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.

The newspapers had described me as the Jagger of the Aga. It wasn't hard living up to the reputation.

My reputation is the main reason why a lot of things don't go my way on the court.

Courtois was rated highly enough by Chelsea to go back and replace Petr Cech, one of the best goalkeepers of modern times. He has lived up to his reputation.

I don't think I have a reputation to live up to and that I need to do things to satisfy that.

I always felt I wouldn't be able to carry off what the directors require from me. Luckily, I manage.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.