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Quotes About Expectations

IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit
~ Buck Rodgers
WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
~ Dave Eggers
Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
~ Elizabeth Edwards
a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.
~ Evalyn Walsh McLean
Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
~ George Hamilton
The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.
~ Hank Aaron
For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
~ Jacques Rivette
It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.
~ Jimi Hendrix
A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!
~ Lucille Kallen
Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.
~ Marie Lu
I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.
~ Matt Malloy
In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …
~ Melissa McCarthy
Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met.
~ Michael Ventura
Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.
~ Miley Cyrus
Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
~ Miranda Cosgrove
I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
~ Naomi Campbell
Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don"t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.
~ Nelly Furtado
Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".
~ Nick Hornby
He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
~ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.
~ Patti Stanger
University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.
~ Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert
Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?
~ Rajneesh
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.
~ Sarah Caudwell