Quotes About Expectations

When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will.

My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.

I put a lot of effort into not upsetting people and trying to do things the right way, so I feel I can reserve the right to complain when I feel let down by others.

If you're happy being at a big club but playing reserve team football, I never really understand that.

That's a compliment reserved only for politicians. You never hear someone say, 'You know what I love about my accountant? He's just a normal guy.' That's how low the bar is for people in politics.

I think most people thought that because I am quite reserved and private, I wouldn't make a good captain.

History suggests that the opportunity to run again for the presidency four years after losing is reserved for those who exceeded expectations their first time out - not for the John Connallys of politics.

When I was at Madrid, I knew even by the December of that season that I would be sacked, and if they hadn't dismissed me, I would have resigned.

I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

Beautiful women get in Hollywood's door quickest and then are shut out when their beauty no longer measures up to whatever it is that Hollywood or audiences decide is beautiful enough; once they're inside, their choices are limited by the same beauty that won them their entree.

When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.'

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.

All society wants from me is to sit down, shut up, go to training and play my sport.

I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.

I've always felt very insecure being around in-laws, even my siblings - like the guy who made a bad decision, or the guy who would never just fess up that I'm not good enough to make it, or I don't have what it takes.

As soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father. My siblings had the same kind of pressure.

My kids are used to new siblings coming in, so they're already like, 'When is the next one going to come?' And I'm like, 'Guys, you and the entire world need to stop asking me that!'

I hated high school. I watched my older siblings out in the world and they seemed to be having a much better time than me. I could not wait to be an adult.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.