Unmet Expectations Quotes

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

From minute one, I thought that after I called a game, I said 'Man, I thought I would enjoy calling a game a little more than I probably did.' I thought I would enjoy that part of it. I didn't have the fulfillment that I thought I probably would.

Everything's not always perfect.

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

I'm not going to be one of the guys who hangs around if he doesn't have a road to the title.

I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time.

My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was that he died before he could see that he would be proud of me. I was actually more what he wished for than he thought.

Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.

This is the history of failure.

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

Amateurism has its place in government, in journalism and also on the tennis court, but lack of expertise means politicians routinely promise far more than they achieve.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.