Quotes About Expectations

It never ends, this business of being a lady.

Poor Cecil. It's hard to be a devil of a fellow in these modern times. No stagecoaches to hold up. No princesses to rescue. Just Petey Todd to escort, while the easy, expert fellow walks the pretty girl home.

There is one disappointment that has come with turning sixteen. I seem to be starting to grow.

humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence threatens to violate our expectations.

There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard.

Life, with all its snares and entanglements. The rewards that never lasted, that always disappointed in the end. And all the longings ending in defeat whether they were denied or satisfied.

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

She was tired of people saying things they thought she wanted to hear almost as much as she dreaded them saying the things she didn't want to listen to.

if the potential employees made the mistake of talking about wanting a harmonious balance between work and home life, Bezos rejected them.

Rather than face what really is, we prefer to retreat and compare what we're living through with the way we think it oughta be. Suffering comes from the comparison between the two.

The pain of having your dreams come true appears vividly when you realize that even if your dreams really come true, they never really come true. From birth to death it's just like this

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at this in your life right now. It's important.

You'll always find something wrong with wherever you are because it will never quite match your idea of what it "should" be.

Well she never thought life would be so full of meanness and disappointment. She hadn't been prepared for it.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

I can see what you're up to." "Five foot six inches," Shallan said. "I suspect that's all I will ever be up to, unfortunately.

Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should.

A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.

When we are young," Jasnah said, "we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.