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• The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That’s what I learned about male-female relationships.

  Neil Strauss

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Inspires, Good Thing

• Expectations ruin relationships.

  Unknown

  Topics in Expectations, Life

• Some are so perfectly prepared for the expected that they are defeated by the unexpected.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Act without expectation.

  Lao Tzu

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• People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don’t do this and don’t do that. But it’s hard to live up to some people’s expectations.

  Rodney King

  Topics in Expectations, Life

  Tags in People

• We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

  Charles Kennedy

  Topics in Children, Expectations

  Tags in High, Politicians

• I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you’re constantly being shown this garbage and you can’t get there.

  Charlie Kaufman

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  Tags in People, Human

• Rejection doesn’t hurt, expectation does. Lying doesn’t kill, denial does. Forgetting doesn’t heal, forgiveness does.

  Unknown

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Hurt, Forgiveness

• When I look at my daughter, who’s 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

  Frances O'Grady

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Confident, Worry

• Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Topics in Expectations, Love

  Tags in Time, Return

• The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.

  Eli Khamarov

  Topics in Expectations, Life

• There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

  Cheryl James

  Topics in Children, Expectations

  Tags in Doing, Wearing

• I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

  Chen Shui bian

  Topics in Expectations, Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Believe

• The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

  Gemma Arterton

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  Tags in Women, Industry

• Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

  William Howard Stein

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  Tags in Aspiration, Need

• It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

  Danny Boyle

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  Tags in Good

• I do chores around the house, but I don’t get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor… I’m sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in House

• I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

  Cathy Freeman

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