False Expectations Quotes

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them -- campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

Remember that everybody signed up as fast as they could in World War I because they thought the war would be over by Christmas.

People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.

A Senator is not God or a doctor.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Back when I was single and Guns were on the 'Illusions' tour, chicks were, like, left and right. They were falling over themselves. And I saw the sadness in that. The first six months of that, it's like, 'Killer! Chicks are hot. They're into me.' And then you realize they're not really into you. They're into the guy they saw on the JumboTron.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

People ask ... for criticism, but they only want praise.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.

What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.