Quotes About Expectations

If you expect more from yourself than from others, you are saying that you are better than others and therefore must perform at a superior level.

If I wanted to influence their behavior, it had to be through my own. The only real control I had was the choice of my own words and actions, including being clear about my expectations and needs.

She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

But sometimes one hears an Etiquette-Buster's confession that rings true: "You make me feel guilty." I'm not going to bother, this argument goes, so we need to lower the standard so I don't look bad. On

There will always be someone out there demanding something different from you.

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.

I'd really done it now. I'd come to camp planning to be special. Now I was special. I was probably the biggest liar that Camp Pinetree had ever seen.

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

Maybe paradise is overrated.

Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a shrug?

She keeps herself in a constant state of unhappiness, so she is never disappointed by life.

A woman is more responsive to a man's forgetfulness than to his attentions.

Menschen konnten nichts anderes sein als Menschen. Sie zogen sich Roben an oder Handschellen und taten, was von ihnen erwartet wurde. In diesem Haus bestand ihre Aufgabe darin, den Phantomschmerz einer amputierten Weltordnung zu erzeugen.

Eigentlich gehörte sie zu einer Generation, deren turnschuh-tragenden und Sushi-essenden Vertretern schon der Besitz einer Hauskatze als unerträgliche Verantwortung erschien. "Haus bauen, Baum pflanzen, Kind zeugen" war kein Glücksrezept mehr, sondern eine Horrorvision. Die Ewigpubertierenden wollten sich alles offen halten und wunderten sich dann über Orientierungslosigkeit.

Dem 'ersten Mal' all jener Dinge, die ihm mit ziemlicher Gewissheit im Leben noch bevorstanden, blickte er ohne Aufregung entgegen. Als er zehn Jahre alt wurde, hatte er im Fernsehen, in Magazinen und im Internet die wesentlichen Zutaten des menschlichen Lebens bereits gesehen und auf ihre Beschaffenheit geprüft.

Mehr als einmal hatte Frederik ihr vorgeworfen, sie knüpfe Liebe an die Bedingung reibungslosen Funktionierens. Wenn sich ein Mensch nicht in ihrem Sinne verhalte, sortiere sie ihn aus wie ein defektes Gerät. Durch diese unausgesprochene Drohung bringe sie andere dazu, ihrem Willen zu folgen, denn niemand wolle verstoßen werden, nur weil er die Küche nicht aufgeräumt oder einem Grundstücksverkauf nicht zugestimmt habe.

But you get used to broken promises... Broken promises, along with good intentions that have gone wrong, just litter the highway all through your life. They're nothing to bother about much unless they're your own.

You have no' answered my question. Do you want a husband who requires praise at every turn? And once he's grown accustomed to extracting that from you, what will be next? To sit on your throne? To take your meetings with ministers?

Los sueños de la juventud se estrellan contra la realidad de la vida cotidiana

Fátima regañaba a Clara por su tozudez al negarse a tener hijos. —Tu marido te dejará con el tiempo, o traerá otra mujer a la casa para que le dé hijos. —El mundo ha cambiado, Fátima, los hombres quieren otras cosas, no sólo hijos, y yo estoy muy cerca de tocar un sueño con las manos. Ahora no puedo quedarme embarazada, no podría excavar.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

Mother," Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, "you know I love you dearly—" "Why is it," Violet pondered, "that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?