The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

In any investment you expect to have fun and make money.

I was given baby doll toys myself and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me and her mom's had before her.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

My mom and I used to listen to records read and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men and expects to make a living at it.

Alfred Nobel was much concerned as are we all with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity and the hope later that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

When Demetrie got sick we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is like so many families in the South we also expected her to use a separate bathroom to use separate utensils.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage but it somehow eludes them.

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations and then you have to adjust those expectations and it can be a very unnerving confusing time.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time after university a woman was expected to become a teacher a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

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.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity the marriage is more important than fidelity.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect considering their value on the personality market.

There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.

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