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Quotes About Expectations

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
~ George Sand
Homosexuals want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!
~ Beverly LaHaye
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
~ Dustin Clare
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
~ Sara Sheridan
I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.
~ Kether Donohue
We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.
~ Terry Bozzio
I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.
~ Jennifer Fox
The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors
~ Julia Quinn
Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.
~ Kate Millett
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
~ Kesha
It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.
~ Koo Stark
I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.
~ Luc Besson
We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.
~ Maureen Johnson
This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.
~ Maureen McCormick
If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.
~ Meredith Brooks
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Oh, sometimes it's just easier to please people, " Maria said finally.
~ Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.
~ Lynn Coady
The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.
~ Laozi
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj