Jane Wagner Quotes

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed up would make sense. He closes his eyes tightly. His life wasn't always a mistake, he thinks, and he breathes uncertainly for awhile, trying to find a pathway into unconsciousness, into sleep.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...

Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.