Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne. You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. M...
Don't you know there's another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the...
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence.
Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.
I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.''If...
I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments
I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.
If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.
Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head.W...
My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already fail...
People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover,...
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