#expectation

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#evening #expectation #go #houses #know

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#born #built #character #day #did

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#direct #direct proportion #expectations #grows #happiness

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#image #self-image #life

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#expectations #go #live #out #remarkable

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#happiness-life #unhappiness #life

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#feelings #habit #love #show #truth

Love hurts because we think that's what love is. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#love #suffering #love

But look behind you, Mary.' She nodded towards the dais. 'One of the musicians seems to be trying to attract your attention.' It was Peter. He was standing on the dais smiling across at me. My delight at seeing him was such that I could not disguise it - did not try to disguise it. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#expectation #happiness #jane-austen #love #peter-bushell

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#dora-carrington #expectations #identification #inhibitions #morality