Quotes About Expectations

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.

...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

It is tougher for a dog to live without rules because he doesn't know what is expected of him. It is the mind, the body, the heart, not just the heart. Love is not enough.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.