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Quotes About Expectations

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
~ Tommy Shaw
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How can you learn unconditional love if you're married to a woman who meets all your conditions?
~ Paul Washer
Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.
~ Tom Perrotta
You can love your job, but your job will not love you back.
~ Cathie Black
Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
~ Bernie Siegel
If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.
~ Sloane Crosley
When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
~ Linda Ronstadt
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
~ Timothy Keller
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
~ Cathy Guisewite
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
~ T. H. White
The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please.
~ Paul Westerberg
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
~ Jean Kerr
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
~ Abigail Van Buren
People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
~ T.I.
You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
~ Anthony de Mello
Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
~ Jimmy Connors
The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
~ Halle Berry
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
~ Theodor Adorno
Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, 'Ugh, kids!' Maybe that will change when I get older.
~ Vanessa Hudgens
You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
~ Johnny Depp
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
~ Johnny Knoxville