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Quotes about Expectations

There is too much unhappiness in football, no?
— Claudio Ranieri
Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
— George Bernard Shaw
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.
— Margaret Mead
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
— Margaret Mead
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
— Euripides
I think we're [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
— Erica Jong
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
— Kathleen Norris
Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.
— Paulo Coelho
This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.
— Peg Bracken
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
— Oscar Wilde