Quotes about Expectations

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.

There is no mark on the wall to measure the precise height of women. There are no yard measures neatly divided into the fractions of an inch that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter or fidelity of a sister or the capacity of a housekeeper.

Virtually all the characters in the novel have failed to live up to their early dreams and ambitions.

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

the possessor of such great expectations,—farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations.

If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again.

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.