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Quotes About Expectation

I'm not a leading man.
~ Aaron Paul
I'm more of a "let the man come to me" girl.
~ Alexandra Breckenridge
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
~ Andre Maurois
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.
~ Bruce Springsteen
for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had
~ Charles Bukowski
You can't surprise a man with a dog.
~ Cindy Chupack
If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
Every man's entitled to hope.
~ David Milch
hopes dance best on bald men's hair
~ e. e. cummings
I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.
~ Elisabetta Canalis
It would not be better if men got what they wanted.
~ Euripides
Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.
~ Euripides
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
~ Francis Bacon
Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.
~ Gary Lawyer
Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.
~ George Colman the Elder
That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
~ George Eliot
She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.
~ George R. R. Martin
Men see what they expect to see.
~ George R. R. Martin
If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.
~ George R. R. Martin
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
~ George Washington
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
~ Louis Gustave Vapereau