Quotes tagged ‘Expectations’

“Henry: Well, that's a stupid house to rob. Shawn: Does anyone live up to your expectations? Maybe we should get the robber's phone number so you can call and tell him how disappointed you are.”

— Tami Sagher, Shawn Spencer, James Roday, imdb.com

“Press secretaries can't cry! It's, like, a rule!”

— Jenna Bans, Shonda Rhimes, Abby Whelan, Darby Stanchfield, imdb.com

“This isn't how I want it to be, how either of us want it to be. This is what it is. Let's stop pretending. Let's just be here.”

— Matt Byrne, Shonda Rhimes, Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington, imdb.com

“The moment you're craving isn't anchored in real emotion. It's a script dictated to you by our society's patriarchal love narrative.”

— Rene Gube, Heather Davis, Vella Lovell, imdb.com

“I got stuck on, like, wanting you to say I was a good person, because if you believed it, then somehow I could believe it too.”

— Michael Hitchcock, Rebecca Bunch, Rachel Bloom, imdb.com

“And who's to say this isn't what happens? Who can tell me that my fantasies won't come true? Just this once...”

— Bill Lawrence, John 'J.D.' Dorian, Zach Braff, imdb.com

“Remember when the new Star Wars movie came out? It was all built up, and when people finally saw it, it wasn't that great in bed?”

— Matt Tarses, John 'J.D.' Dorian, Zach Braff, imdb.com

“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl i…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“We all think we’re going to be great. And we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But, sometimes, our expectations sell us short. Sometimes, the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You gotta wonder why we cling to our expectations. Because the expected is jus…”

— Eric Buchman, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“To be the one my parents raised me to be— a season from the planet of planet-sized storms.”

— Chen Chen, poets.org

“Expect nothing. Appreciate everything.”

— Norm Kelly, twitter.com

“I know you didn't wake up today expecting this was how your first day was going to go. You thought you would get to reattach an arm or observe brain surgery. Instead you helped save the life of a deer. You can bitch and complain about it or you can adjust your expectations. Cause like it or not you'…”

— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Izzie Stevens, Katherine Heigl, imdb.com

“Often, we master thoughts, beliefs, and expectations about the very things we don’t want because of the silent, terrifying, unconscious thoughts that we repeat in our mind.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“What a disappointing 21st century this has been so far.”

— David Bowie, amazon.com

“I can't keep doing this to myself, getting my hopes up so high, only to have them come crashing down. I can't keep waiting for him to come to his senses, having my whole emotional state rest on what he decides.”

— Abby McDonald, amazon.com

“Heartbreak occurs when we cling to our belief in how a situation should have happened or how a person should have behaved instead of accepting what is. In that way, we cause much of our own suffering.”

— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com

“People break their own hearts with their expectations.”

— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com

“A key to happiness is to do kind things for others. A key to misery is to expect them to be grateful.”

— Steve Maraboli, twitter.com

“You told me my hands were soft because you had no idea what they’d touched.”

— Camryn Prince, quotecatalog.com

“What’s always been asked of me Is to reach a bit higher than I’m able to The standards of the world is becoming like Everest The more I go towards the top, stress builds up like a mountain I know I can never rest”

— Epik High, open.spotify.com