"Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the……" — Umberto Eco
"Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity."
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Umberto Eco
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…
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More Expectation Quotes
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I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.…
— Michele Bachmann
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Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
— Antonio Banderas
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People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation…
— Halle Berry
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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life…
— Cate Blanchett
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'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line…
— Anthony Bourdain
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that…
— James L. Buckley
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
— Samuel Alexander
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When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the…
— Noam Chomsky
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