Quotes About Expectations

No woman is owed economic support, children, respect or love. The woman who accepts and lives by correct principles thereby earns the right to make certain demands upon her husband; being female entitles her to nothing.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.

But you must be sure of what you want the land for. And as for your tenants, if they don't own the land, don't expect them to make sacrifices. It never works, you know. Besides, the transition shouldn't create dislocations. It isn't easy to shift from agriculture to industry.

Just because something had been expected of you didn't mean you had to expect it of yourself.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can usually see better than he can think! (unknown)

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

I'll do my best, sir." "I'll pretend I didn't hear that. You can't do your best every day, as that would be your average and you'd never have the ability to shine when it's needed the most. Save your best for when it's truly important. The rest of the time, give a good effort but forgive yourself if it's not your best.

The pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential.

Am I more than you bargained for yet? I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear Cause that's just who I am this week

Am I more than you bargained for? Been dying to tell you anything, you want to hear, cause' that's just who I am this week.

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

It is sometimes dangerous to make requests to men, who are too desirous of receiving them.

The average person thinks he isn't.

I just want not to be hurt by him. I want it to be like it was when I was a child, when you thought the day you got married you lived happily ever after.

Serena maintains today that as George grew older he also grew out of his mind. Many men do, in my experience. Life does not come up to their expectations: they grow older, and disappointed. At fifty they realise others have passed them by, made more money, won more respect. Their sexual drive fades and the self-esteem that goes with it. They take to litigation and shake their fists at other drivers.

Come le si era chiuso il cuore ai primi disinganni, nel vedere che l'amor suo non bastava a Raimondo, che egli pensava diversamente da lei, che faceva consistere la felicità in cose senza valore per lei!

BERNARDA: Aquí se hace lo que yo mando. Ya no puedes ir con el cuento a tu padre. Hilo y aguja para las hembras. Látigo y mula para el varón. Eso tiene la gente que nace con posibles

Está bien que una casada quiera tener hijos, pero si no los tiene, por qué hace necesidad de ello. Lo importante de este mundo es dejarse llevar por los años... que así, tendrás felicidad.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

The problem is that we create an image of ourselves in our childhood and youth (often at the urging of parents, siblings or friends), and subsequently attempt to graft reality onto this image. More often than not, the graft doesn't take and the result is bewilderment and disappointment.

You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.