Quotes About Expectations

Generally, you kiss in a closed room but on a film set you have to do it in front of so many people.

It's difficult when so many people are talking about this pressure of being a celebrity sibling, and you somewhere get lost and don't know how to deal with it.

There are so many people who are dependent on me. You know, setting expectations, and then feeling afraid. But I am a firm believer in the fact that good work has always been recognized.

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

It's great to get an 'F', but you also want to give the sense that there's something outside achievement. I've seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don't feel they've achieved much.

In our families, we are finding that abandoning that sense of masculine entitlement actually enables us to live happier lives.

It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.

I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours.

I know no marriages which fail and come to grief more quickly than those which are set on foot by beauty and amorous desire.

Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.

Men jeg innser klart at dette gode er svært vanskelig å gjenvinne; svakhet og lang erfaring har gitt oss en mer kresen og nøyeregnende smak. Vi forlanger mer samtidig som vi har mindre å tilby; vi vil ha flere valgmuligheter, når vi selv minst fortjener å bli valgt. Fordi vi vet at i er slik, blir vi mindre dristige og mer mistroiske, og i betraktning av vår egen og deres tilstand, er det ikke noe som kan forsikre oss om at vi er elsket.

They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down.

A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his dog and his pigeons.

Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work.

No desea que los hombres la consideren hermosa. Tal cosa sólo conduce a la infelicidad. Tampoco espera la admiración de otras mujeres; de ellas sólo espera una indiferencia cortés y un cotilleo rencoroso a sus espaldas.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

Soon enough we'll all be grown up and find ourselves with more responsibility than we ever wanted.

Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn't dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands.

Sometime the shittiest, most oppressive thing about being a girl is how good you're supposed to be all the time. And sometime that feeling of an enforced, expected goodness can come from feminism. The thing about being a poet, an artist, a writer is you can't be good. You shouldn't have to be good. You should, for the sake of your art, your soul, and your life go through significant periods of time when you are defying many notions of goodness.

They were twenty-seven already, in no time at all they'd be thirty, terrifying. No one knew what would happen then. Michelle couldn't imagine anything more than writing zine-ish memoirs and working in bookstores.

We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

It doesn't matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.