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Quotes About Expectation

Waiting for Prince Charming?" "Aren't all women? And you're waiting for Cinderella." "Actually," Jared said slowly, "I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun.
~ Jude Deveraux
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
~ Walt Whitman
Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.
~ Laura Schlessinger
All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.
~ Amy Dickinson
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
~ Josh Billings
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
~ Julian Tuwim
Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
~ Luigi Pirandello
I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Apparently every man was told to bring three women with them. Sounds like a ho-down.
~ Eddie Murphy
...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.
~ Fay Weldon
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I always see those jeans with the stretchy front on pregnant women, and they look like the dreamiest thing ever.
~ Georgia May Jagger
All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.
~ John Mellencamp
Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.
~ Laura Bush
Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up?
~ Laura Schlessinger
Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.
~ Mary McCormack
I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.
~ Mindy Kaling
Women had a tendency to see what they wanted to see i men, at least in the beginning
~ Nicholas Sparks
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
~ Philip Sidney
I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.
~ Rachel Roy
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson