Quotes About Expectations

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

La vida es una serie de tirones hacia atrás y hacia adelante. Quieres hacer una cosa pero estás obligado hacer otra diferente. Algo te hace daño, pero tú sabes que no debería hacértelo. Das por supuestas ciertas cosas, aunque sabes que no deberías dar nada por supuesto. Es una tensión de opuestos, como una goma elástica estirada. Y la mayoría de nosotros vive en un punto intermedio.

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

They don't know what they want in a partner. They don't know who they are themselves—so how can they know who they're marrying?

Some of these things I understand, some I do not. It makes no difference. The discussions give me an excuse to talk to him, fatherly conversations I cannot have with my father, who would like me to be a lawyer.

It's the same for women not being thin enough, or men not being rich enough. It's just what our culture would have you believe. Don't believe it.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.

Yang terjadi saat impianmu menjadi nyata adalah kesadaran yang perlahan luruh bahwa impianmu tidaklah seperti yang kau bayangkan. Dan impian itu tidak bisa menyelamatkanmu.

I think people expect too much from marriage today," he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment should be bliss. That's TV or movies. But that is not the human experience.

She thought she mattered little to him, but in this she was mistaken, as the musician was quite smitten, and not nearly so unattached to her as she supposed, but pride, and also fear, and also style, kept him from asking more of her than she offered up.

Nishi's sister, who was sixteen years old, had gone for a holiday in Sylhet and returned six months later with a husband and a swelling belly. Nishi, strong on forward-planning skills, was taking evasive action: she was going on a holiday of her own and she would return when she was twenty-five. At that ancient age the danger of marriage was over.

Asl?nda insanlar seni hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸratm?yor. Sadece sen, yanl?? insanlar üzerinde hayal kuruyorsun..

We all have an idealised picture of the garden that we have carried around in our heads from the moment it became ours and which, I guess, is never the same as the growing reality. Over the years that the garden is coming into being that image carries you forward and inspires you, but when things reach maturity, the cold light of reality can be harsh.

How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close.

There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.

I wonder if we're giving our children the chance to really perform, if we're giving them and ourselves enough credit, as we pore over our parenting magazines and reference manuals. I wonder if we're getting in the way rather than out of the way, as we get sucked into the trap of competing with other parents to raise the most exceptional child.

the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death

You can't expect everybody to think of you all the time. Nobody knows you. And you never talk to anyone!

La virilité est un fardeau qui renvoie constamment l' homme ordinaire à une vulnérabilité inavouable.

For Shama and her sisters and women like them, ambition, if the word could be used, was a series of negatives; not to be unmaried, not to be childless, not to be an undutiful daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow.

Our goal in raising you was not that you'd be happy, but that you'd behave. You've

I was dreading the dinner because I knew that once I found myself in the dining-room seated (...), it would no longer be possible to remain a silent spectator, I should be obliged to try and think of things to say. It had been drummed into me all my life (...) that silence at meal times is anti-social. -'So long as you chatter, Fanny, it's of no consequence what you say (...)

WHY SHOULD SHE want to be married?" "It's not as though she could be in love. She's forty.