Quotes About Expectations

She had spent the last six months of her senior year counting down the days, literally wrote the number on a jotter next to her bed every morning. She thought once she'd escaped that prison, her life would suddenly become fantastic, but it hadn't turned out that way.

All those Disney films have you believe that one day you'll meet your Prince Charming. What they don't tell you is he comes in a psychotic package without warning labels.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.

What the hell do you wear to dinner with the man that you are LITERALLY in love with?!

It's human nature to set a point in our minds when we feel triumphant and to measure everything that comes after it by how far we fall or rise from that point.

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

You get what you tolerate.

As a leader, you get what you tolerate. People do not repeat behavior unless it is rewarded.

Although previous studies had suggested that friendship--male and female--could be a powerful antidote to stress, more recent research indicates that broken promises, dashed expectations, and other side effects of friendship gone wrong can actually raise the level of stress in our lives, often to disastrous effect.

The message couldn't have been clearer: women may rise to the top, but they must seem as though they don't care whether they win or lose. Nice girls care only about being nice. They win only by accident or by someone else's efforts.

Not only should the conventional "rules" of marriage not apply necessarily to individual wives, but the euphoria of Phase One is old news. We being to learn that while nothing is as good as it seems, nothing is quite as dire as it appears.

Second-generation lawyers may fare better. Children of lawyers who followed in their parent's footsteps were more satisfied than most lawyers.

Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.

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

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

When a relationship fails. At times, we don't necessarily miss the person we were involved with; we miss the person we "hoped they could have been",if only they had changed. Or sometimes, we're just in love with the idea of being in love. Some people are insecure about being alone again. Some are afraid to let go of the familiar.Just remember, you can not change anyone but yourself so never make yourself a hostage to a sick relationship

She don't want you around all fucking day. Many women that I know take you home, you make love, it's all over, you get up, you can see the relief on their faces: Not only does he fuck me well, he leaves.

When are you seeing Pauline?" "Oh, she'll eat me alive. Are you kidding? She's worse than you.

It upsets her that I do not have a boyfriend. She claims to understand why she does not have one, but she thinks it is preposterous that I don't. Both my clothes and my solitary life being instances of my unwillingness to seek romance.

People think I'm much more than I am.

How you doing?" he asked. "How's everything?" "Fine, thank you," I said, turning my bracelet on my wrist. I felt shy, and it made me uncomfortable. "You always say that," he said. "That's what I'm supposed to say.

His sudden falling-away, his tentativeness, his loss of will, made me dislike him, and I realized that I was disappointed.

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.