Quotes About Expectations

You can't make a person, a human being with a first kiss and a sense of humor and a favorite sandwich, and then expect her to dissolve back into scribbled notes and whiskeyed coffee when she no longer suits your purposes. I think I always knew she would come back to find me, someday.

Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.

If you care more about them than they do about you, they hate you for it.

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them. Unless Daniel was bluffing, he had made one last mistake, the same one he had been making all along. He was seeing the other four not as they were but as they should have been, could have been in some softer-edged and warmer world.

Lixa sempre as expectativas das pessoas, companheiro. Faz bem à circulação.

I love the unspoken dress code.

That's how guys work. If you care more about them than they do about you, they hate you for it.

Our entire society's based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. Taking it for granted that that's the whole point of life, never to be satisfied. If you're perfectly happy with what you've got–specially if what you've got isn't even all that spectacular–then you're dangerous.

Everything about her is pure faultless middle-class–the accent, the clothes, the hair, the china patterns, it's as if she ordered herself from a catalogue–but you can see the incredible effort that goes into every second of it.

Kevin was a child. He never grew up. Thirty-seven years old and he still figured everything in the world was going to go the way he thought it should; it never hit him that the world might work its own way, whether that suited him or not.

I sometimes think we should go back to the old days, when there was proper courtship, when people walked out together for weeks and weeks before anything happened. At least then you know something about each other, you have some solid ground to put your feet on. We're all so impatient now, we just want to get to the main action.

You can't even please yourself; how can you please a lover, Zoe?

I knew guys got erections. I was perfectly prepared to deal with it. When the right guy and the right erection came along.

Living in the future creates the illusion that we are managing our life and steels us against personal failure.

When a man and woman have sexual relations, who gets the most out of the deal? The man, or the woman? Since we live in a society full of tricks, the man thinks he gets more out of the encounter. But what do men really get out of it? The reality is that women have the potential to get more out of it than the man, especially if the man's seeds have accumulated a certain amount of value.

Les perceptions sont souvent divergentes alors que les attentes et les espoirs sont similaires.

A marriage could not be happy if the husband was prettier than the wife, that much she knew.

fake leather looks great until you use it in demanding situations, and then it shows its true colors and lets you down.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

he would not love her, not with the sort of passion to be found in the myths of old. Marriage was about duty and loyalty. Love was something else altogether.

Aggressive, crazed Hindus had broken the Babri Masjid and the Hindus of Bangladesh were expected to atone for the wrongs done by those people.

One of the hurdles of adulthood is when holidays become measuring sticks againt which you always fall short. For children, Thanksgiving is about turkey and Christmas is about presents. Grown up, you learn that all holidays are about family and few can win there.

You don't know how demoralizing it is to be a man with nothing to offer a woman.

The next customer in line was a white woman who had purchased a set of baby's pajamas for her pregnant sister. "Men," the customer said. "Who can understand the way their minds work?" Mother knew what the lady was talking about, but she couldn't laugh at a black man with her, even though she was only laughing at him for being a man.