Quotes About Expectations

When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

There are no real men.

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

Most American men are repressors.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.