#expect

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#dream #enchanted #event #expectation #exquisitely

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#begins #deal #did #down #down the road

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#delightfully #dive #expectations #find #go

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#certainly #employment #expect #feel #give

I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#expect #get #i #i do #like

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#always #appreciated #closeness #criticize #distance

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#expects #hear #his #love #man

I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments. ↗

— Retief Goosen

#every time #everybody #expects #first #first time

A desert is a place without expectation. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#expectation #place #without

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#else #expected #honest #really #someone