Quotes about Expectations

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

I did everything that might be expected from a person entirely ignorant of God's righteousness who works to build his own self-righteousness.

That was just the mindset of the times: that happiness was somehow less important than keeping up appearances.

People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.

How many times since then have I rejected Love because it did not present itself the way I expected, in a form acceptable to me?

Men are like parking spaces, the good ones are already taken and the ones left are running out of their metres

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.