Quotes About Expectations

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Kad?n? götürüp mutfaÄŸa ya da süslenme odas?na kapat?yor, sonra da ufkunun darl???na ÅŸa??yoruz; kanatlar?n? kesiyoruz, sonra, uçam?yor diye yak?n?yoruz.

The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so;

To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be.

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

Ningún hombre consentiría en ser mujer, pero todos desean que haya mujeres.

Avevo torto di pretendere che la vita si conformasse a un ideale stabilito in anticipo; stava a me mostrami all'altezza di ciò ch'essa mi portava.

Não sou o tipo de mulher a quem se mente. Orgulho imbecil. Todas as mulheres se julgam diferentes; todas pensam que certas coisas lhes não podem acontecer e todas elas se enganam.

Encierran a la mujer en una cocina o un tocador y se asombran de que su horizonte esté limitado; le cortan las alas y deploran que no sepa volar.

And sometimes I think myself sensible, and sometimes I accuse myself of cowardice. In fact I am defenseless because I have never supposed I had any rights. I expect a lot of the people I love - too much, perhaps. I expect a lot, and I even ask for it. But I do not know how to insist.

La Malédiction qui pèse sur le mariage, c'est que trop souvent les individus s'y rejoignent dans leur faiblesse, non dans leur force, c'est que chacun demande à l'autre au lieu de se plaire à lui donner.

Rodi?ia eÅ¡te vychovávajú svoje dcéry radÅ¡ej pre manželstvo, než by podporovali ich osobný rozvoj. A žena v ?om vidí to?ko výhod, že po ?om sama túži.

No hay que creer en el Príncipe Azul. Los hombres no son más que unos pobres seres.» No parecerían enanos si no se les pidiera que fuesen gigantes.

All women think they are different; they all think there are some things that will never happen to them; and they are all wrong.

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Human beings have roots by virtue of their real, active, and natural participation in the life of a community which preserves in living shape particular treasures of the past and particular expectations for the future.

It keeps strays in the flock. To word it differently: 'You must live up to the popular code if you believe in it; but if you don't believe in it, then you MUST live up to it!

She had so painfully reared three sons to be Christian gentlemen that one of them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.

Carol was discovering that the one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

When Myra appeared she said at once, Now, we want you boys to go on playing around just as if we weren't here. The first evening, he stayed out for poker with the guides, and she said in placid merriment, My! You're a regular bad one! The second evening, she groaned sleepily, Good heavens, are you going to be out every single night? The third evening, he didn't play poker.

So kindly," Carol mused, "so well meant, so neighborly – and so confoundedly untrue. Is it really my failure, or theirs?

But see here now! Do you actually mean to tell me, Fran, that you think that just moving from Zenith to Paris is going to change everything in your life and make you a kid again? Don't you realize that probably most people in Paris are about like most people here, or anywhere else?

Now of all the cosmic problems yet unsolved, not cancer nor the future of poverty are the flustering questions, but these twain: Which is worse, not to wear evening clothes at a party at which you find every one else dressed, or to come in evening clothes to a house where, it proves, they are never worn? And: Which is worse, not to tip when a tip has been expected; or to tip, when the tip is an insult?

So far as I can see, he brooded, travel consists in perpetually finding new things that you have to do if you're going to be respectable.