Quotes About Expectations

He held no aspirations of ever being anything to them

Grownups were always breaking promises as if it didn't matter at all.

The important thing when conducting an internal review is to do without the constraints, without the doubts, fears, and expectations of what you "should" be doing. You have to be able to set aside the obstacles of time, money, and obligation.

I wish I was not so determined to feel secure about everything. I want everything to be comfortable and in reality nothing ever is.

Our tremendous drive for social acceptance and toward conformity in our time is causing us to train our children to be a generation of young liars who do not even realise they are lying. We train our children to be subtly dishonest almost from the crib. "Shh... don't cry in front of all these people.

You know the part in Cinderella when everyone goes to the ball and she sits at home, crying? It wasn't because her gown was ripped. It was because she knew she was an idiot for thinking she could grab a prince.

M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm? J: He's just a fiend. We barely know each other. M: Nice, The stuff dreams are made of.

M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm? J: He's just a friend. We barely know each other. M: Nice. The stuff dreams are made of.

Sex is just sex. It's everything wrapped around it that's the problem.

You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'

If I work harder, I'll be successful. If I'm successful, I'll be happier. This is how most of us think. When I have this, when I achieve this, I will be happy. But often when we do get what we've been striving for, we move the goalposts. We get caught in a cycle of wanting for things, for accomplishments, for experiences.

Mrs. Vice turned to the weddings page. She liked to look at the smiling brides and imagine how miserable they would soon be.

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an asshole. That's the first rule of retail.

Oh, joy, Christmas Eve. By this time tomorrow, millions of Americans, knee-deep in tinsel and wrapping paper, will utter those heartfelt words: "Is this all I got?"

As far as he knew, no one in his family had turned out normal yet and he didn't see why he should be the first.

The saloon keeper loves a drunk, but not as a son-in-law.

If you want to stay single, look for a perfect woman.

Steele found, for example, that if he could convince women who took difficult mathematics examinations that everyone connected with the test assumed they would perform as well as men, that they did.

If we read Girls in the context of the earlier Sex and the City, the contrast between the two adds a dimension to the later serials's world. The impact of the financial crises has shifted the possibilities that had been opened to the characters. They live in contrast to the dreams they saw represented when they were younger.

For we have seen the future – we have by now centuries of experience of the future – and we know it doesn't work.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.