Quotes About Expectations

Well, it's stupid, and it's no wonder people are perpetually fucked up, as nobody can depend on something as basic as February. Which is already screwed up because it insists on having less days, then adding one like a little prize every four years even though everybody wants February to get the hell over so we can move on.

You were never what he wanted you to be. And more than even I hoped. In weak moments, I might credit the lieutenant for some of that.

Eve didn't get it, just didn't get it. Who the hell decided everyone was supposed to go mad with romance and gift buying on some random day in February? Hadn't everybody just gone mad with good cheer and gift buying in December? When would it end?

Qué es el futuro, al fin y al cabo, más que una estructura de expectativas y esperanzas? Reside en la mente. Carece de realidad.

You are perfect for a female. Not where I come from. Then they're using the wrong standard.

She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. But no, she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.

Sometimes, you didn't get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.

Saxton smelled really good and had a handshake that was firm. You've grown up a lot. Blay found himself flushing as he took his hand back. You're just the same. Am I? Those pearl eyes flashed. Is that good or bad? Oh...good. I didn't mean--- So tell me how you've been. Are you mated to some nice female your parents set you up with? Blay's laugh was sharp and hard. God, no. There's no one for me.

I suppose this is for the best, Blay said into his shoulder. You can't cook. See? I'm so not Prince Charming.

Shit, it was so damn girly. Next thing you knew, she was going to start crying at TV ads and doing her nails. And getting a frickin' pocketbook.

He didn't even know what it was, Vishous." "The tux?" V lit a hand-rolled. "Of course he didn't. He's a real male.

Well, too bad, boys—life wasn't an epi of Doctor Who. And you know what?

I don't do one-night stands, she blurted. Who says one will be enough.

You didn't need to know the specifics about a male like that to be fully aware he was a Taylor Swift song waiting to happen.

But for some reason, his feelings were hurt. Which was insane. The plan had been for the two of them to use each other. Fair trade. No emotions, just fucking. It was his standard currency. So what the hell was his problem?

As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn't going to be what you wanted.

Supposed to in one hand, s*** in the other; see what you get the most of- V to Rhage

Gin supposed, considering how umptious his first wife Chantel was, anything short of a farm animal would be an improvement.

As her pace through the fountain intensified and her robing started to get soaked, she leaped out of the pool and jogged around, her fists up in front of her, the punches she threw out pumping the air. Being the good, dutiful Chosen was not in her hardwiring, and that was the root of all of the problems between her and her mother. Oh, the waste. Oh, the disappointment. Oh, do get over it, mother dear. Those

He was from the land of labels. Which was not the same as quality, was it.

You have to remember," Peterson adds, "that one of the ways that Gary Kurtz talked to me about Empire was, 'From the model point of view, it'll actually be easier than the first show because we already have all the models; they've been packaged, sent up north, and are sitting in a warehouse. So in some ways, it'll be just operating those models again.' Well, it didn't work out that way at all!

He made so many promises," said the deeply disappointed Obama acolyte Barbara Walters five years into the presidency. "We thought that he was going to be . . . the next messiah." The messiah he was clearly not. He was not even an honest man. Lamented Walters, "People feel very disappointed because they expected more.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.