Quotes About Expectations

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

Don't you think there's a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman's greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?

When I was younger I thought I'd meet the man of my dreams, get married and have a child, but it all went higgledy-piggledy. Never say never, though.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

I can get plenty of men, keeping them is the hard part.

Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.