Quotes About Expectations

She'd always heard that Paris was elegant but hasd struggled to imagine how. She'd assumed it would be rigid; the demanding intolerance of perfection. But...she was struck by the easy naturalness of everything.

Men don't like clever wives, they like charming ones!

Innocence is attractive in children but it makes brittle, disappointed adults.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, the never get around to doing what they want to do.

I don't go to graduate school. Instead, I move to New York, the city where I naively imagine writers must go.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur. ~Jerry Seinfeld

the mayor wants things smoothed over between O'Neil and you." Inside Rachel a war battled: Yay! she was going to see Dylan regularly. And: Oh, no, she was going to see Dylan regularly.

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit. - Les Brown

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. - Patricia Neal

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. - Maureen Dowd

It's too much trouble to get laid. Because you have to go out with a guy, and go to dinner with him, and listen to him talk about his opinions, and I don't have that kind of time.

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.

The better the child, the worse the teenager

The idea that there's someone for everyone is mathematically impossible. I found my Mr Right and he ended up being a Right Bastard. As did yours.

Amazing." Hi stripped off his shirt, wrung it out. "Score one for your honker." "Thanks, I think." I cocked my chin at Hi's substantial midsection. "Nice abs." "Yeah, I work out twice a month. No expectations. But stop hitting on me, it's embarrassing.

Hey!" I said, indignation filling me. "I'm immortal! Doesn't that mean I won't get saggy boobs and gray hair? Because if it doesn't mean that, I want a refund—

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

The rules say you have to be tall and thin and blonde and beautiful and not very smart and never want anything that you can't get from a man. So why the hell would I want to follow the rules?

Women who got married got screwed.

The shortcomings of my generation do not have to extend on to yours.

A person who wants to live a fun and easy-going life should not become the manager of a company.