Quotes About Expectations

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Lawrence of Arabia said old and wise means tired and disappointed. He didn't live long enough to know how right he was.

It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises.

A 'full' life in my experience is usually full only of other people's demands

Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give?

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

Most people don't fall out of love at the same time. One person always wants more than the other person can give them. And that ends in bitterness.

One thing I'd learned the hard way: people loved you in the way they knew how — and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

maybe that was what grown-up life was really about. Doing what everyone else thought you should do.

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

some of the brightest kids prove to be the most vulnerable to becoming helpless, because they feel the need to live up to and maintain a perfectionist image that is easily and inevitably shattered.

Parenthood shouldn't work this way. Fathers shouldn't get to decide if they wanted to father or not, thirteen years in. Fathers who weren't dead should do their damn job.

Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you'll be onto you till you're so weighed down you can't move.

Young men, romantics, call it love at first sight, but even then I understood it was only prettiness. Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you'll be onto you till you're so weighed down you can't move.

I shook my head. Parenthood shouldn't work this way. Fathers shouldn't get to decide if they wanted to father or not, thirteen years in. Fathers who weren't dead should do their damn job.

Rule: "My adult child should be able to balance out whatever mistakes I have made with all of the good that I have done as a parent." Counter: "While I wish that my child could see all of the ways that I have been dedicated, I

In contrast to prior generations, conflict is no longer seen as an unavoidable, and perhaps even necessary, component of family life, but rather a referendum on each person: Does my parent limit my potential? My happiness?

women who get the most participation from men are those who are comfortably assertive in their expectations of that participation.8 If you feel overly responsible or guilt-ridden about wanting your husband to pull his weight, you'll be at the mercy of his goodwill. This is not where you want to be in the modern-day, stressed-out marriage where everybody's trying to steal a few minutes of down time.

Men whose own mothers were overly demanding, needy, or restrictive can feel especially frightened by their wive's sudden escalation in needs and requirements for help. A woman may be suddenly caught off guard by this new demonstration of anger, withdrawal, or blame in response to her reasonable requests for help and participation.

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.

People expected too much, pushed themselves too hard, and therefore brought strains upon their minds that they were constitutionally incapable of withstanding.