Unrealized Hopes Quotes

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.

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

We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.

I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.

I think I laid it all out there for 19 years, and you don't always achieve all the goals that you shoot for.

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn't happen.

I have a memory of my mother kneeling in front of a cabinet in our home, tenderly cradling her wedding china. We never used the plates; she died in her 40s without ever letting herself enjoy these gorgeous pieces. I told myself that I would use my precious items.

Dreams have consequences.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotencies.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.