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Quotes About Expectations

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.
~ Fay Weldon
The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.
~ Gary Chapman
How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.
~ Gerald Vann
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
~ Graham Norton
Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.
~ Hilary Swank
Love is just an institution.
~ J Tillman
You see, you don't want me to love you. You want the version you've made up. The knight, even though I'm the dragon and I always will be.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.
~ Jenny Mollen
Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love?
~ Kate DiCamillo
I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
~ Kate Winslet
There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.
~ Roger Ebert
In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
~ Victoria Beckham
I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me.
~ Mary Donnelly-Haskell
Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks
~ Meg Cabot
The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.
~ Mira Sorvino
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
~ Alain de Botton
The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
~ Jodi Picoult
We tend to make up the people we fall in love with
~ Joyce Johnson
My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.
~ Gustave Flaubert
It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.
~ Harold H. Bloomfield