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Quotes about Expectations

I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermodel, beautiful girlfriend roles. I mean, playing somebody who's perfect holds no allure for me, whatsoever. It's just boring.
— Rebecca Romijn
We want to go out and bring the house down. Anything short of that, we get disappointed.
— Scott Moir
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
— Gabrielle Union
When you slide into television, no one tells you exactly how manage expectations and work with your staff.
— Pete Holmes
Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.
— Lee Strobel
Two days wrong! sighed the Hatter. I told you butter wouldn't suit the works! he added, looking angrily at the March Hare. It was the best butter, the March Hare meekly replied.
— Lewis Carroll
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
— George Eliot
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
— Kesha
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.
— Paulo Coelho
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it
— Edith Schaeffer
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
— Albert Ellis
Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way.
— Aldous Huxley