Quotes About Expectations

But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.

We bring our life stories, our prejudices, our grudges, our expectations, and our limitations with us to books….Openness to a book is vital, and openness is simply a willingness to be changed by what we read. This is not as easy as it sounds. Many people read to solidify their own views.

Pero claro está que las mentiras más espectaculares en absoluto necesitan ser perfectas. No dependen tanto de la habilidad del embustero como de las expectativas y los deseos del oyente.

There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

When you love, love with with all your heart; don't have any expectations. You love because that's the only way you know how. It justifies your life.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundae--enjoyable but not something you can acually live on.

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

Fine. You don't want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.

To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.

It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

It is no way to live, to wait to love.