Charles Reade Quotes

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Things always look better when you haven't seen them.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

There is no better moment than this moment, when we're anticipating the actual moment itself. All of the moments that lead up to the actual moment are truly the best moments. Those are the moments that are filled with good times. Those are the moments in which you are able to think that it is going to be perfect, when the moment actually happens. But, the moment is reality, and reality always kinda sucks!

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

He who awaits much can expect little.

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned.

You always underestimate - rather than be disappointed.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.