Quotes about Expectations

If a man does not treat you like a princess during courtship, he will not treat you like a queen during marriage.

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

You teach people how to treat you.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises.

People think they know what they want but they generally dont. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.