Quotes About Expectations

It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves.

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

Love does not always begin or end the way we wish it would.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else.

There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

It's impossible, " he snapped. "Why?" "Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that.

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

I think love without heartbreak is a myth. A pretty myth, but the kind of myth that ultimately makes us feel worse about ourselves because we're somehow not able to make it come true.

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They're all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.

Once a woman goes over 25, she prioritizes 'financial security' in a potential lover. Love and good looks are just a bonus.

Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.

If love wasn't conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*

When you love somebody you justify negative sides of this person, but if you are disappointed in your love yo lose every chance to do it

Some of the "New Women" writers will someday start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting.