Quotes About Expectations

Une famille, c'est un groupe de gens qui n'arrivent pas à communiquer, mais s'interrompent très bruyamment, s'exaspèrent mutuellement, comparent les diplômes de leurs enfants comme la décoration de leurs maisons, et se déchirent l'héritage de parents dont le cadavre est encore tiède.

Basmele nu exista decat in basme. Adevarul este mai dezamagitor. Adevarul este intotdeauna dezamagitor, de-aia minte toata lumea.

El sexo es una lotería: dos personas pueden adorar eso por separado y no congeniar juntos. Piensas que la cosa puede evolucionar, pero resulta que no evoluciona.

În secolul XX, dragostea e un telefon care nu sun?.

My earthly body has been a terrible disappointment to me.

Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for their flaws as well as their attributes. Turn to them for their strengths, what good stuff they can bring to your life, and forget about the rest. To ask for more only sets you up for failure.

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

Ma come spiegarle?... Non capirebbe egualmente che io son piena di me stessa, che mi occupo tutta. Anna non aspetta che dei figli per annientarsi in loro, come ha fatto sua madre, come fanno tutte le donne della famiglia.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!

happiness is a different thing altogether. If you try to achieve it, you have every chance of failing. And besides, how would you ever know that you'd achieved it? Of course one can't blame people, especially unhappy people, for wanting to be happier and setting themselves goals in order to try to escape from their unhappiness.

Lesson no. 3: Many people see happiness only in their future.

The old monk said, 'The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!' And

by adding together these three differences - between what we have and what we'd like to have, what we have now and the best of what we've had in the past, and what we have and what other people have - you get an average difference which is closely related to happiness. The smaller the difference, the happier we are.

There are three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere: "Hold my purse."

Here it is wished, as elsewhere, that women possess merit and virtue. But nature would have had to make them thus, for the upbringing they are given is in such opposition to the goal proposed that it appears to me to be the great masterpiece of French inconsequence.

Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble sparingly when at table, and their minds were supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too.

She had always known that she was rated less than Howard, the treasured son. Now, however, she knew that she was ranked somewhere below "miscellaneous cuttings.

So she was 'my lady' now, not 'miss'. That was what she had always wanted, wasn't it? Why did the words chill her? There was something so cold and final about it, like the click of a door closing behind her. Her childhood was over, and now there was only her place in the 'great game', and whatever role Uncle Maxim had chosen for her. There was no going back.

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.