Quotes About Expectations

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child, and there was a lump in Gaal's throat.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child

You are going to be judged harshly because success in women is not easily forgiven.

All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.

Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money.

If I have a perfect lover waiting for me in California, why would I want an imperfect husband?" I argued. "Lovers don't last; a husband is a captive prey," she replied.

No me preguntes lo que no quieres que te conteste.

En gran parte del mundo vivimos en una cultura enfocada hacia la juventud, la belleza y el éxito. Para cualquier mujer resulta muy difícil navegar en esas aguas; para la mayoría es un naufragio seguro.

que aceptara a los niños como se aceptan los árboles, con gratitud, porque son una bendición, pero sin expectativas o deseos; no se espera que los árboles sean diferentes, se los ama tal cual son.

In brief, I am in a splendid moment of my destiny. This is good news for women in general: Life gets easier once we get through menopause and are done with raising kids, but only if we minimize our expectations, give up resentment, and relax in the knowledge that no one, except those closest to us, gives a damn about who we are or what we do. Stop pretending, faking it, lamenting, and flagellating ourselves about silly stuff. We have to love ourselves a lot and love others without calculating

Me propuso matrimonio al conducirme al aeropuerto. Le contesté lo que se espera de una respetable dama madura: De casarse, nada, pero si estás dispuesto a viajar con frecuencia a California, podemos ser amantes, ¿qué te parece? Pobre hombre... ¿qué me podía contestar? Que sí, claro.

Antes se alcanzaba la edad adulta a los veinte, la madurez a los cuarenta y la vejez empezaba a los cincuenta. Hoy la adolescencia se extiende hasta bien entrados los treinta o cuarenta, la madurez sucede alrededor de los sesenta y la vejez empieza recién a los ochenta. Se ha estirado la juventud para complacer a esos

I had been assured that, as long as I was still nursing Juan Martín, I'd be safeguarded against another pregnancy, but it turned out to be another of the lies peddled to women at that time.

All husbands are boring, John. No woman with an ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.

para complacer a un hombre era mucho trabajo; sería más práctico que él buscara una mujer a su gusto.

If you had asked me in 2005, when I had just joined Foreigner, that I would leave the band in 2007 to play with Led Zeppelin, I would have said you're nuts.

Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

It's impossible to have zero defects.

By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.

The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.

I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.

When I come onto a show where I haven't met any actors, I try to zero in on the script and what's expected of the character I'm going to play and hopefully keep my focus on that, and friendships develop from that.