Quotes About Reciprocity

Singing is an inclusive thing. It gives somebody something to do at a concert—they feel like they're a part of it…. When I see people singing, it makes me feel like I'm getting something back.

we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.

don't do favors. I accumulate debts. —Ancient Sicilian motto

I don't do favors. I accumulate debts. —Ancient Sicilian motto

Failing to be there when a man wants her is the greatest sin a woman can commit - except being there when he doesn't want her.

What can pay love but love?

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

When you love someone, you expect them to love you back the same way - with a singleness of heart.

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.

I am very lucky to have people who care about me and care about my music. I think it would be irresponsible to not show them as much love back as they show me.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

I think it's not enough for us to extend the hand of love. I think it's important that that goes both ways. It's important also that we look at policies we need to change as well.

Don't ask for love when you are not capable of giving it.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me too.

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance. That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance.

Nobody does anything for nothing.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours" I said that