Quotes About Failed Expectations

#1. I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations ... We all have dreams.

Annie Lennox

#2. We may mean them in the moment the words leave our lips, but as time goes on, good intentions get rubbed raw by failed expectations.

Kandi Steiner

#3. I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations. - Two Kinds

Amy Tan

#4. People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.

Travis Luedke

#5. I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.

Charles Dickens

#6. The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

#7. They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed to live up to their utopian expectations.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. Sometimes I was so busy being tuned in to outside ideas, expectations, and demands, I failed to hear the unique music in my soul. I forfeited my ability to listen creatively to my deepest self, to my own God within.

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own.

Margaret Atwood

#10. The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.

Joanna Walsh

#11. Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

Hannah Arendt

#12. it is strange
how
sisters
can
be
saviors
or
strangers
sometimes
a bit of both.

Amanda Lovelace

#13. In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations.

Amy Tan

#14. We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.

Jocelyn Soriano

#15. My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already failed.

Alexandra Robbins

#16. There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

Gloria Steinem

#17. I have lived this life, and no matter what others may decide about it, I must claim each decision as mine. I have caused harm, failed in the expectations and obligations of love. I have loved well. What I do each day is carried within me until I die.

Meredith Hall

#18. Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

Roger Rosenblatt

#19. Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents' idea of success, and you'll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live up to.

Nancy Rose

#20. I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.

Andrea Seigel

#21. Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

Paulo Coelho