Quotes About Expectations

And what is a marriage except adding A to B and hoping it equals an amount greater than the sum of its parts? Briefly, the promise of a new life almost made the math work. Except A was still A, and B was still B. We could create a new life, but we couldn't stop being ourselves.

Stop psychoanalyzing me! Be less therapist, more man -- Man? Last time I tried being a man, you looked at me as if I was going to hit you. You don't need a man, Rainie. You either need a blow-up doll or a damn saint!

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go... it's like a dead flower.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.