Quotes About Expectation

Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be

Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

England expects every man to do his duty

A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.