Quotes About Expectations

People were the same everywhere, no matter what lofty vows they proclaimed. Help was given only in the hope of its being reciprocated. Expectations of reward lurked behind every act of altruism.

What's wrong with you?' 'Happy…ha, that's good. Very good.' He then turned to study her. 'You're eager for Skulldeath to take one of those flying leaps straight between your legs? You want to get pregnant with some prince from some Seven Cities flying squirrel tribe?

Hopes had a way of sinking fast once you stepped out of childhood.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

In your family, your parents did not empathize with you. They expected a great deal more from you than you were capable of giving. At age seven, for example, you may have looked and acted quite mature, yet you still had your moments of whining and crying, you still needed considerable comfort and guidance. Your parents, not taking into account that this was to be expected, struck out aggressively against you because you were not acting according to their expectations.

I tell him everything as we walk. Maybe so he won't be disappointed being born into a place like this.

After I graduated from Harvard, I enrolled in the school of journalism at Columbia University. I did that for my dad. He wanted his son to be a journalist. I disappointed him. I wrote about sports instead.

If you're told what you should be but not helped to become it, you don't get there. And it makes you ashamed for failing to. When a person you depend on keeps telling you that it's time to 'move on,' 'to grow up,' it makes you feel that who you are now is inadequate or uninteresting.

I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.

There is nothing so unsure as the plans we make that rely on the sensible behavior of another human being.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

There is no law, written in the stars which says that theoretical physicists have to be happy

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I didn't have that much time.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

She would not give herself to this man completely. He had a lot more to prove to her before she'd do that.

I can't fulfill this destiny you all want for me so badly! I'm sick of hearing about it!

I had always believed marriage to be as my parents portrayed it, something safe and staid. With you, that will not be so.

Shem was an unpredictable creature, he could not be relied on.

We tolerate so much more than is healthy from those who are beautiful.

One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you.

To Americans, the outward display of intelligence is considered unseemly. The Donald Trumps of the world can boast about their penthouses and Ferraris, their women can wear baubles the size of Nebraska, and no one says boo. If you have money, you're almost always expected to flaunt it. But intellect? This is something else entirely. Women, especially, are supposed to play dumb.

Very unusual. American women aren't like this, typically. They want to be wooed. Sweet-talked. Romanced. They want a big fantasy first. Reality comes later. I never have luck with American women.

Why did these big wheels kill themselves? They weren't able to live up to the standards they were accustomed to, and they got ashamed in front of their women. You see, you can tell anybody a lie, and he'll agree with you. But you start layin' down the facts of real life, he won't accept it. The American white man has been superior so long, he can't figure out why he should come down.