Quotes About Expectations

Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined my their limitations of life. The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun, and you will shine.

Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life.

I guess you Da Man now, Filthy, JB says. And for the first time in my life I don't want to be. I bet the dishes you miss number fifty, he says, walking away. Where's he going? Hey, I shout. We Da Man. And when he turns around I toss him the ball. He dribbles back to the top of the key, fixes his eyes on the goal. I watch the ball leave his hands like a bird up high, skating the sky, crossing over us.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

It is said that the mother of King George III told him: "George, be king!" and that many of this well-meaning but far from brilliant monarch's troubles stemmed from trying to obey her. Likewise, Susie Lovecraft in effect told her son: "Be a gentleman!" She succeeded in making him into a lifelong snob

Boys get to do what they want in this world, and girls do not.

Men, I swear . . . Present them with a female all demure in a dress with modestly covered head, and they are all, So pleased to meet you, Miss and À votre service, Mademoiselle and En su servicio, Señorita, but put that same girl in pants and all fine custom disappears, and all she can expect is a rude slap on her tail. Geez

When people see good, they expect good. I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations.

And I know you thought a lot of him. I realize I'm hardly the perfect substitute, but like I said, the way things are going maybe it's stupid to wait for perfection." Suddenly he was looking directly at her and Cassie saw something in his mahogany eyes she'd never seen before.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.

Indeed, Hilda was always putting her oar in, constituting herself the voice of conscience; she was a task-mistress, leading the chorus, undefined, unrecognised, but clearly felt, of those who thought he ought to try more, do more, be more, than he had it in him to try, or do, or be.

We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.

There are few virtuous women who are not tired of their part.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent; but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.

Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life ... they are mean and they want to kill you.

All you have to do with boys is feed them (a lot), wash their clothes (often) and go watch them (with your eyes shut) play soccer. Girls, on the other hand, often resist such simple ministrations, holding out for more emotional involvement. Boys pronounce. Girls dramatize.

Perhaps, if we young mothers had started on day one, and had given our children unisex names, and our sons more options and our daughters more anger, we would find at fifth-birthday parties the boys being fastidious and the girls slinging guns. But is that what we really want?

As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it was his English, his actual use of language, or if it was because people didn't really listen and instead put into the words they heard the words they expected to hear.

How come I only get booked for MILF scenes now? Whatever. Off to tan and then going to see my girls on the Wicked set.