Quotes About Expectations

attaching all your hopes and fantasies to something—or someone—outside yourself almost always has disastrous results.

Whoa, cowboy! I don't have phone sex on the first phone call.

Not showing up to a wedding post-RSVP guarantees expulsion from the couple's A list in the future.

The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don't discuss your weight with him. 3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can't sell him on your body, you'd better overcompensate with sexual perks. 4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing.

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated ' because I've always been skinny.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Society, rather than valuing us as full human beings and empowering us, socializes us to focus on attracting, giving to, and pleasing others.

It's very dangerous to have someone like you, because one day he'll find that you are not the person he thought you were.

I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through me?

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either.

The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to.

one of those unfortunate women who did not find nice men interesting. She found undesirables desirable. She sought out unpleasant boyfriends, then complained about them as though the government had allocated them to her.

My want can only do so much in terms of changing what's actually occuring with other people, and I'd like to keep it that way. I don't want to feel that if I had wanted something more, or had said one other thing, or had worn a different dress, or had been more mysterious, or more open, then I would get something or someone I wouldn't get otherwise.

Back then I was always looking ahead to who I wanted to be versus who I didn't realize I already was, and the wished-for me was most likely based on who other people seemed to be and the desire to have the same effect on others that they had had on me.

So it stood to reason that if I could disappoint my own father—if I couldn't get my own father to love me enough to stick around or, God forbid, visit more often than one day a year—how was I ever going to get a man who didn't have to love me like daddies were supposed to? (Hey

When we started filming, I tried to keep myself well under the radar so that the powers that be wouldn't notice that I hadn't lost the weight they'd asked me to. I only weighed 110 pounds to begin with, but I carried about half of them in my face. I think they may have put those buns on me so they might function as bookends, keeping my face right where it was, between my ears and no bigger.

In the last few years I've become an accepted eccentric at best, and a fuckup at worst. I feel like I'll let people down if I take away the behavior they've grown accustomed to disapproving of. They try to discipline me, I refuse to be disciplined. They object, I'm objectionable. We all know exactly what to do.

But with these human beings you never know. They might not want to hurt you. They might even like you, and that would be the worst possible thing that could happen. Because what can you do with people that like you, except, of course, inevitably disappoint them?

I could've given you so much but you wanted so little

But George actually does have a point, because you know when they send out those space probes and they beam back footage of what it looks like up there? All those films ever show are sand and rocks. I've never seen a bra in any of that footage.

I could've given you so much but you wanted so little ... I tried to read between your lines as you would so rarely speak but I gave you far more credit than you were actually due you see I thought I was only seeing half the man but that was all there was to you

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments, they're the temporary happy by-products of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either

Youth and beauty are not accomplishments… Don't hold your breath for either.