Quotes About Expectations

The media has dubbed me as someone who can only get up for the big tournaments, and that is not who I want to be.

People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

What I don't understand is what America really wants.

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player," Nita said, "I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.

but then you realize that this 'whole package' everyone's looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.

Too bad guys aren't like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?

I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains.

On rookie Alex Selivanov, Yes the guy can score you 40 goals. Yes I love it. What I don't want is him causing 60.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down.

Not everyone wants you to become your potential, for whatever reason.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.

I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.