Quotes About Expectations

Like I said, I'm a disappointment to her. She wanted me to be a murderer and an extortionist, like my father.

There are certain traditions," Father went on, shifting his head a little so he was looking just over the top of Gignomai's head, as though he was talking to where Gignomai should have been at age fourteen, if he hadn't turned out disappointingly short.

Ladies from fine old Imperial families shouldn't sleep in tents and shit in ditches. Exactly what they were supposed to do all day nobody had quite figured out yet; be put away in cupboards when not in use seemed to be the prevailing opinion.

When people who aren't normal try to make their lives normal it doesn work.

To be a king, is to be a disappointed man.

Neue Bücher rochen nach Druckerschwärze, nach Leim, nach Erwartungen. Alte Bücher dufteten nach Abenteuern, ihren eigenen und jenen, von denen sie erzählten. Und gute Bücher verströmten ein Aroma, in dem das alles steckte, und dazu noch ein Hauch von Magie.

Wir hätten Freunde werden können, aber du weißt, wie es mit Freundschaften gehen kann. Enttäuscht der eine den anderen, können sie schnell in Hass umschlagen, viel schneller als gewöhnliche Bekannschaften. Wir neigen dazu, einem Menschen, den wir schätzen, einen Fehltritt viel ärger anzurechnen als einem Unbekannten.

If he were only interested in me for one thing, he'd have moved on when it didn't go perfectly the first time.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

It's a woman's prerogative to take her time about getting ready for a date," Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

When I said I'd stay over, I didn't know that this was what you had in mind. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I… if you want me to go home now, that's fine.", Summer Jones in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

With all those one night stands of his," Nat explains, "he had to learn to dress fast. He has to get out of there before a girl can think he might actually care." I look at Drew and he shrugs again. "They know what they're getting into," he says. "Why complicate things with emotional stuff?" "You're a pig, you know that?" Rachel calls out from the pool., Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Incredible. Drew, you really are a girl's worst nightmare. I mean, you look great. You have this amazing body and your eyes are such a dreamy blue, but you behave like a total jerk." "I think I liked it better when you were saying how great my eyes are," , Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

She was embarrassed that Drew was the type of walking one-night stand guy their mom had warned her about. ", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Alguien ha dicho que el hombre es, a los diez años, un animal; a los veinte, un loco; a los treinta, un fracasado; a los cuarenta, un falsario y a los cincuenta, un criminal.

Still children into their twenties, this generation

Well, you obviously don't love anyone very much if your love is contingent on them always staying the same.

Your father doesn't see any of this. Little princeling wants a crown on his head and his hands lily-white. He can't have both. Why do you have to be

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Attachment gives birth to hope and need. If you are attached to them, you will need them to do certain things, achieve certain things, be a certain way, and behave toward you in a certain way. When they do not, it will cause you pain. When you experience pain, you will behave toward them in a way that pain compels you to behave. And they will behave toward you in a way that their need for freedom compels them to behave. And this will continue for the rest of your lives.

The man who toils for toils sake does so only to satisfy himself that he has "toiled," as the world as told him to do. And if he does not find Truth, he is content to say that he did the necessary toil and still did not find it, and thus it wasn't meant to be.

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

I thought I was going to do some cult, cool, late-night interviewing thing on BBC2. But everyone kept saying: 'No, Michael, you're teatime, you're not cool.'

A lot of times, going into the interview, you have an idea of maybe what you want to talk about. And the people you are interviewing have an idea of what they want to talk about.

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.