Quotes about Expectations

Getting over an unfavorable impression is ever so much easier than living up to an ideal.

whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order.

Mrs. Davilow have willingly let fall a hint of the aerial castle-building which she had

Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on.

In marriage, the certainty, 'She will never love me much,' is easier to bear than the fear, 'I shall love her no more.

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.