Quotes About Expectations

People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

None of them was even your type." "How do you know my type?" "Were they?" Eve asked, her voice tinged with disbelief. She hooked a thumb in Cree's direction. "Is he?" "My type?" Kate shook her head. "Yes." No. Wasn't that the point? The men she dated were like...like seat-fillers at awards ceremonies. One person vacates and another takes his place. Simple as that.

Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

How many times since then have I rejected Love because it did not present itself the way I expected, in a form acceptable to me?

I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.

I think you must have forgotten, Anita," the Duke said, "that I told you never to come to a conservatory alone with a man unless you wanted him to make love to you." "I-I never - thought - " "That it applied to me?" the Duke finished. "Well, it does!

Mom, why couldn't my story, my real life story have a happy ending - like in the books?" "No true love story has a happy ending; one always must die and leave the other. So there's never a totally happy ending.

Are we always to be wanting what isn't: the greenest grass accord and principle motherhood and career? Yet our age lies to us like an asp, whispering. "Both.

How do you know if you like someone because you really do like that person, or if you like him only because you think you're supposed to?

could also relate to wanting me to be someone I wasn't, though James couldn't be faulted for that. It had been all my doing.

It was the women's movement that did it, told us we could be everything, but we can't. We can't be mothers and wives at the same time that we're professors. It just doesn't work. Someone always gets gypped.

What about me, Peter?" "You can cook. You can clean. You can be waiting here for me when I get home. I'd think that would be enough." "Well, it's not!

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

It's unrealistic to expect to be completely accepted and understood in life.

They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one.

Men are like parking spaces, the good ones are already taken and the ones left are running out of their metres

In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed.

has the American presidency become the most impossible job in the world?

In government we have leaders who are perceived by and large as unable to do what they are supposed to do, to lead. In business we have leaders who are perceived by and large as able to do what they are supposed to do, to lead, but who nevertheless do so in ways that disappoint and dishearten.