Quotes About Expectations

I was caught between the crossfire of the atheist school and a Baptist church and family. Both had a prescription for how I was supposed to think and behave. On most points, they actually agreed. I was supposed to be clean, have short hair, talk modestly, listen and obey, never fight. Consequently, I was slovenly, grew long hair, and fought every day.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

Love had different beginnings but always the same end. Someone was going to get hurt.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they will love forever.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

But you would still settle for me if I were that last, wouldn't you? Women are like that. They have to have a male.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

She never gave up adoring our father, but he ceased to be, for her, the larger-than-life hero I continued to make him into. For Patty, he was more like a deeply lovable spaniel who keeps peeing on the rug and chewing on the upholstery, no matter how many times you tell him not to.

When a person gave less, he required less in return.

I had developed, early on, the habit of low expectations, and of letting my life be directed by whatever person happened to come along who seemed to know better than I did what they were doing.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome. It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.

Lo llamamos síndrome del recomendado, y afecta enormemente a las probabilidades de cagarla.

what I call the soft bigotry of low expectations.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.

I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

She should forget about his performance in school and concentrate on his performance as an escort, a host, a man.

Yet when we are in a state of trust, we experience reality with new eyes and we: Reveal more Expect less and over deliver Assume the best of others Look at situations with an open heart Interpret communications through truth and facts Tell the truth Yes people to confront truth