John C. Wright Quotes

Things always seem to end before they start

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

Reform always disappoints.

Our movement has accomplished nothing—anywhere.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

The future is the shape of things to come.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

She'd have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she'd be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

The world will not wait for us.