Quotes About Expectations

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

Look at it like this: If your products and services start at $50,000, and that person has a true budget of $20,000, do you think he is magically going to come up with an extra $30,000 for your products and/ or services? In most cases, the answer is no. Instead of scaring the person, you're going to educate him, which brings relief and saves time for all parties involved.

Why was success required of a person? And once you were successful, life required you to do it again and again.

It is, perhaps, part of the human condition that children, as they grow to adulthood, must disentangle themselves from who their parents dreamt they might be, in order to figure out who they really are or hope to be. For

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

The history of American spaceflight is a history of doing less than had been planned, less than had been hoped for.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

The usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Many people go into relationships because they fall in love with the essence of a person, only to find out that the person's narcissistic wounded self is in charge most of the time.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!

Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.

But I think we often settle for sex when we want love. And we often want love when we need something else, like a good job or a chance to go back to school.

He will make any woman happy a little while and then unhappy a long while.

I hate when I'm supposed to be having fun and Race singles me out for special chores and duties.

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.