Quotes About Expectation

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.

People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.

Is this all you want?" Sam asked bitterly. "A good time?" "You're one to talk!" "I like a good time. But not all the time.

We are nowhere, wanting to be somewhere, idling at the starting line of adulthood.

Holy f---! she managed before going under again, as if the water sensed that young ladies of such beauty and promise should never curse.

See, that's your generation all over—you muck up everything and then expect us to fix your messes

She was flustered; he could see it in the way she kept twisting her fingers together. Did she think he was going to throw her down on the seat and rape her? After all, he was a renegade Indian, and capable of anything. Then again, the way she looked, maybe this was the most excitement she'd ever had.

She was holding her breath, waiting to start living.

will your daughter be here?

There's a baby inside you right now," he said, leaning forward to trace her collarbone with kisses as Emma gave in and let her hips move of their own accord. "And as soon as you're over having this one, I'm going to put another in you, Emma. And then another. I'm going to have you morning, noon, and night—" "Ooooh," Emma groaned helplessly, as he cut off his own words by closing his mouth over one of her nipples.

Insanity, the saying went, was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

This new generation, they've been raised by their parents to assume they'll start at the top. No scut for them. They'll just sit in their parents' basement till the job offer for partner comes in.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of rejecting him. He had no time to notice their disappointment.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.