Quotes About Expectations

Ever since romanticism replaced the arranged marriage, the assumption has been that people marry for love. This is largely a myth. Any marriage can evolve into the mutual love of watching each other live. But first marriages are often a matter of conforming to the shoulds of the 20s.

THE SHOULDS ARE defined by the family destiny, the press of the culture, and/or the prejudices of our peers.

Further discomfort from these new realities afflicts men who expected to reach a certain level by dint of their white maleness but who now have to make room for women and minorities as well as their own generational bulge. The old boy network doesn't help them much anymore.

No matter how different the forms we choose, our concentration during the Trying Twenties is on mastering what we feel we are supposed to do.

And to what degree does the young woman invent the man she marries? She often sees in him possibilities that no one else recognizes and pictures herself within his dream as the one person who truly understands. Such illusions are the stuff of which the twenties are made.3

If there's something about me you don't like, just tell me," says the newlywed anxious to please. "I'll change it." If he or she is not forthcoming with such an offer, the other one is determined to change it for the partner. "He may drink a little too much now," the bride confides to her friend, "but I'll reform him." Examination

I won't say we human beings still don't have much to learn. Sometimes we love and hate without thought. We expect too much from one another, and often we are wrong.

The greatest honor I could have given my family was that of my death, and I ran from it. I was frightened at not fulfilling my obligation, not giving ko to my parents. Yet, there was a voice inside of me that kept telling me to escape

Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.

Tyrion Lannister: It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.

The girl may want more honesty. However, most of us want a comfortable life.

Apparently, philosophy persists, even though less obviously and less insistently than once. If John has trimmed his interests to conform to the expectations of the adult world, that's a shame. But if he has simply moved on to other interests, that's natural enough. There's more to life than philosophy.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

Vedno sem neznansko užival v pripovednem zapeljevanju.Priznam, vše? mi je dramati?nost. Dobra zgodba mora vedno nastaviti pri?akovanja in jih razburljivo in presenetljivo zavla?evati.

For me, a good story is all about setting up expectations and delivering on them in an exciting and surprising way.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

We have counseled many couples that started their journey in parenting with high hopes and the best intentions to love and nurture their newborns, only to see their dreams reduced to a nightmare of survival.

Communism was precisely the abolition of and liberation from the rule of human products that gains power over human communities, grows out of control, constrains human expectations, and blights the lives of many.

Cosby read some advice that he took to heart: "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." This

I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself not the life others expected of me.

Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over-expectations, or thanksgivings. That choice will result in a birth-and the child will be named either contempt, or respect.

it may feel as if they just want you to stop being you.

the story of Isaac and Rebekah is an account of what was, but not necessarily of what should be for all of God's people.