Quotes About Expectations

Begin to nurture yourself…Some grew up expecting their romantic partners to give them the nurturing they hungered for, only to be disappointed. But our partners are not our parents, no matter how much we try to make them into parents. No one can make up for the deprivation you experienced, and no one should be expected to.

A 13 anni, è risaputo, una femmina è una ragazza in fiore, una giovane donna nel pieno splendore della maturità, mentre un maschio è un lattante goffo e ridicolo che deve soltanto girare alla larga. L'unica dota apprezzabile in lui è quella di saper star al suo posto. Cioè fuori dai piedi.

Rome was as wonderful as I had hoped it would be, certainly a step up from Peoria.

As recently as the eighteenth century, England happily installed a German king, George I, even though he spoke not a word of English and reigned for thirteen years without mastering his subjects' language. Common people did not expect to speak like their masters any more than they expected to live like them.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Non so quale sia la chiave del successo, ma la chiave del fallimento è il cercare di piacere a tutti.

Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day - and overestimate what they can accomplish in a year.

It requires courage and resolve to resist the constant pressures and expectations confronting you and to take corrective action when necessary.

You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

But did you know that at your age Judy Garland was pulling down $ 150,000 a picture, Joan of Arc was leading the French army to victory, and Blaise Pascal had cleaned up his room? No wait, I mean he had invented the calculator. Of course, there will be time for all that later in your life after you come out of your room and begin to blossom, or at least pick up all your socks.

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift.

Though the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools, I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

expecting your publisher to promote and push your book is like expecting your OB-GYN to raise your child.

Expecting more from the president of the United States springs from respect for the country, its institutions and the White House itself. It springs from standards, the falling of which concerns natural conservatives. It isn't snobbery. The people trying to wrap their heads around this presidency are patriots too. That's one of the hellish things about this era.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.

Maga is olyan, mint a többi! – mondta. – Azt hiszi, hogy a nÅ'knek szépnek kell lenniük…

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

It was a basic rule of life: Parents are full of promises; children are full of needs and longing. The perfect ingredients for disappointment.

In short they felt that they should like to have the pleasure of looking at Lady Pole again, and so they told Sir Walter - rather than asked him - that he missed his wife. He replied that he did not. But this was not allowed to be possible; it was well known that newly married gentlemen were never happy apart from their wives; the briefest of absences could depress a new husband's spirits and interfere with his digestion.