Quotes About Expectations

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

What do men want? Men want a mattress that cooks.

People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.

I'm open to love. But guys should have to earn it. Because the minute they get it, they want something else.

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.