“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.” MenWisdomWantedLossHe ManExpectationsSavedDelay Author:Will Rogers
“Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.” MenChildrenFormDealsHe ManExpectationsDisappointmentSatisfactionDeliberateKenneth Author:Randall Jarrell
“I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.” MenI CanSeemsQualityGoneHe ManExpectationsCome UpExtremesAwfulMinoritiesMarvelousRubbishInfantile Author:Rebecca West
“None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.” MenLifeSelfStrongPleasurePayGreaterHe ManRegretConversationDemandExpectationsAngryEnthusiasmFormerAppetiteImpatientTransientDisagreeableCreditors Author:James Goldsmith
“I find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man's body. I guess it's subverting our expectations in terms of how we've come to expect women to present themselves when they're being naked. Also the woman's and the man's role is subverted in that image. You'd expect the man to be carrying the woman.” PeopleMenBodyTermNaturalInterestingRolesHe ManExpectationsNakedRepresentationShockedReally Interesting Author:Bat for Lashes
“Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.” IfsMenFeelsMindOrderDecisionLonelinessHe ManExpectationsUncertaintyPenalties Book:South Source: South