Quotes about Expectations

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.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

If a man does not treat you like a princess during courtship, he will not treat you like a queen during marriage.

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

You teach people how to treat you.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.