Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly different that few of those who wish it would be prepared to accept the consequences, many will not believe until the connection has been laid bare in all its aspects.
If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.
Sometimes you can't accomplish all your goals in life.
Flawless' is an unattainable thing.
Failure was built into it by an extraordinary of exaggerated expectations.
the founding of the United Nations
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse.
People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.
It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.
People who are given a lot, a lot is expected out of them. I realize that, but I also realize expectations are unrealistic sometimes.
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen
We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .
I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!
We had terrible trouble finding a Buttercup because she had to be so beautiful. We had all kinds of pretty girls come in, but they weren't this staggering thing.
Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]
Most of the people we sign on as development agents commit to goals they don't believe are possible.
If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.