Quotes About Expectations

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards. "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought

So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

Why does a girl have to be so silly to catch a husband?

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better

The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took the credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.

All you've done is to be different from other women and you've made a little success at it. As I've told you before, that is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! Scarlett, the mere fact that you've made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn't succeeded. Remember, a well-bred female's place is in the home and she should know nothing about this busy, brutal world.

marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude

La vita di Elena non era facile né felice, ma lei non si era aspettata che fosse facile e, quanto alla felicità, quello era il destino della donna. Il mondo era degli uomini, e lei lo accettava. L'uomo era lodato per l'ordine della sua proprietà e la donna lodava la sua abilità. L'uomo muggiva come un toro se una scheggia gli si conficcava in un dito e la donna soffocava i gemiti quando metteva al mondo un figlio, per timore di disturbarlo.

Oh, Pa," cried Scarlett impatiently, "if I married him, I'd change all that!" "Oh, you would, would you now?" said Gerald testily, shooting a sharp look at her. "Then it's little enough you are knowing of any man living, let alone Ashley. No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don't you be forgetting that.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a "living" document.

Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?

Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.

I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media's depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don't have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

If your customers are demanding, be thankful.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.