Quotes About Expectation

People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

Hope is a working-man's dream.

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.