Quotes About Expectations

Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.

You disappoint me, Arianne. Said the crow to the raven. You have been disappointing me for years, Father.

Renly thought she was absurd. A woman dressed in man's mail, pretending to be a knight." "If he'd ever seen her in pink satin and Myrish lace, he would not have complained.

Septa Mordane said boar hunting was not for ladies, and mother only promised that when she was older she might have her own hawk. She was older now, but if she had a hawk she'd eat it.

Unless you relish the notion of having a one-armed dwarf for a son …

A daughter." Brienne's eyes filled with tears. "He deserves that. A daughter who could sing to him and grace his hall and bear him grandsons. He deserves a son too, a strong and gallant son to bring honor to his name. Galladon drowned when I was four and he was eight, though, and Alysanne and Arianne died still in the cradle. I am the only child the gods let him keep. The freakish one, not fit to be a son or daughter.

Gods forbid they glimpse me near the high seat of the Arryns, they might think that I mean to sit in it. Cheeks born so low as mine must never aspire to such lofty cushions.

men who pay in promises should have at least the sense to promise more.

Los príncipes nunca llegan tarde. Si otros están antes que ellos, es porque han llegado demasiado pronto.

He was not finding life as a white man the rosy existence he had anticipated. He was forced to conclude that it was pretty dull and that he was bored. As a boy he had been taught to look up to white folks as just a little less than gods; now he found them little different from the Negroes, except that they were uniformly less courteous and less interesting.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her." (Letter, 17 June 1837)

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us, and not desire to see the bones of the ox out of which it has been boiled.

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

Parents try so hard to create moments their children will remember when they're grown, and it rarely works out the way they expected.

People you loved were supposed to love each other.

Sometimes we're so intent on getting exactly what we ask for that we miss the fact our prayers have been answered in another way.

There's something inherently wrong in a relationship where the woman acts like a wife and the man acts like a boyfriend.

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.

Lynet scowled. "I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?