Quotes About Expectations

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

The relations individuals enter into with other individuals nowadays have been described as 'pure' – meaning 'no strings attached', no unconditional obligations assumed and so no predetermination, and therefore no mortgaging, of the future. The sole foundation and only reason for the relationship to continue is, it has been said, the amount of mutual satisfaction drawn from it.

a young American with a moderate level of education expects to change jobs at least eleven times during his or her working life – and the pace and frequency of change are almost certain to go on growing before the working life of the present generation is over.

Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

The intercommunication system also includes the expectations and demands that people place on themselves and others—something that has been labeled "the tyranny of the shoulds." 2 It is important to recognize these injunctions and prohibitions because rigid expectations or compulsive attempts to regulate the behavior of others are bound to lead to disappointment and frustration.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

Die meisten Menschen sind so glücklich, wie sie sein wollen.

We had moved in a single November night from ideology to politics—from what you _want_ to what you do—with the usual disappointing results.

how often life was about not wanting to be doing what it was you were supposed to be doing.

Expectations quickened dramatically after prospectors discovered diamonds in South Africa in 1867 and gold some two decades later.

Underlying much of Europe's excitement was the hope that Africa would be a source of raw materials to feed the Industrial Revolution, just as the search for raw materials—slaves—for the colonial plantation economy had driven most of Europe's earlier dealings with Africa. Expectations quickened dramatically after prospectors discovered diamonds in South Africa in 1867 and gold some two decades later.

I'd drained our bank account, and there was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept at the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled "DEAD SPIDERS." As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't have wanted to look at dead spiders. I

His standards for himself, and for everybody around him, are the highest. He was Foreign Office trained and wants the world to function at that level. He is meticulous about everything; he hates to be late; he hates inaccuracy; he double checks everything; he follows up everything; he has fallbacks if things should, in spite of everybody's efforts, go wrong.7

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

Today it is easy to smile at the expectations we nursed in those days as to the possible effect of such an attack. With two or three times the number of bombers carrying five times the bomb load, with improved bombsights and perfected methods of attack, the Allies could not destroy or even completely paralyze a city like Berlin.

I've learned that it's fine to have expectations, and dreams are wonderful, but once in a while, it would be good to have something come my way without having to fight for it.

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

It's never enough, Ciro. Never enough. Believe me, eventually, you run out of ways to make a woman happy.