Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

Playing eight years, never making the playoffs, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that's going nowhere. You're like, 'Is this it? Is this all football is?'

I'm not going to lie: I fell out of love with football for a little bit because I had some good performances but then just didn't get the chance to play on.

The League of Nations could've been something really, really big... it wasn't. A lot of guys were frustrated about it in a way.

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

I did everything religion told me to do for a long time only to end up frustrated, beat down and jaded. I couldn't keep up. No matter how hard I tried, it was never enough. So I decided to quit. And I did.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

I am Dusty's son, but I learned the hard way I was never going to be 'The American Dream.' That was difficult for me, and I made some molehills into mountains.

I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.

When Carlisle released me, I felt as though the dream of being a footballer was over.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely