Quotes About Expectations

Both unfulfilled promises and unnecessary requests can destroy trust between people.

Hearer (specific identity) 3. Conditions of satisfaction (COS) stated in accordance with the standard practices of a community

Todo en la vejez es impropio: matar, reírse, el sexo, y sobre todo seguir viviendo.

Ferris Cameron has never been in love -- at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work.

The more highly we think of ourselves, the sorrier we feel for ourselves when we do not get what we know we deserve.

Bet she still lives with her mum and dad and has piles of teddies on her bed...

You see how deviously the institution of marriage threads itself through a woman's life? If she does not marry she is perpetually a child—until she is suddenly an old woman, that is.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I knew what he was thinking. Thanks to Mickey, I had been elevated from child-who-can't-learn-to-swim to child genius. The

On our second day, my parents announced that Kauai was boring. "There's nothing to look at, just plants and rainbows," my father declared. "There are no stores," added my mother. Instead of staying for another week, we left the next day. The

Perhaps the people we think we know best are the ones who surprise us most.

Sian Beilock, a psychologist and leading expert on choking, defined the phenomenon in her book Choke as "poor performance that occurs in response to the perceived stress of a situation." The

Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off you?

She wanted to hold on to the rosy candlelight glow of romance, rather than have to deal with the bright, sometimes glaring day-to-day life with another person. And who could blame her?

I saw how dating chipped away tiny pieces of a woman's self-confidence; piece by piece, date by date, she was diminished by some form of unnatural behavior forced on her by social usage.

Ever since high school I had been one of the special girls because of my grades; A's were the source of my power, but A's came from school and school would soon end. When it did, I would go from 'God, she's a brain,' to 'Hey, she's a secretary,' except I did not know shorthand.

Perfect Melancholies have high standards they do everything to perfection, but when they impose their standards on others, this trait becomes a weakness.

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had read it. You had not been for ten minutes in any sort of intimacy with any man before you had said: "But I've read all this before…" You knew the opening, you were already bored by the middle, and, especially, you knew the end….

Parents who give a lot of warnings raise kids who don't behave until they've had a lot of warnings.

J'ai mis longtemps à admettre que je ne m'étais marié que pour les autres, que le mariage n'est pas quelque chose que l'on fait pour soi-même. On se marie pour énerver ses amis ou faire plaisir à ses parents, souvent les deux, parfois l'inverse

Au premier mariage on cherche la perfection, au second on cherche la vérité.

C'est donc cela, la vie d'adulte ; construire des châteaux de sable puis sauter dessus à pieds joints, et recommencer l'action, encore et encore, alors qu'on sait bien que les océans les auraient effacées de toute façon ?

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