You were supposed to be an asshole.
— Vince Vaughn, Jared Stern, Dana Simms, Rose Byrne, imdb.com
You were supposed to be an asshole.
— Vince Vaughn, Jared Stern, Dana Simms, Rose Byrne, imdb.com
I have a tendency to hope a lot more than expect.
I just don't think I love her as much as I'm meant to love her.
— Liz Doran, Thomas Ward, Josh Thomas, Josh, Josh Thomas, imdb.com
Sometimes people like to paint a rosy color on things when the truth isn't really very pretty.
I'm just not good enough at this process to expect success all the time.
[singing] Winds in the east, mist coming in. / Like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin. / Can't put me finger on what lies in store, / But I feel what's to happen all happened before.
— Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi, Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr., Dick Van Dyke, imdb.com
Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better – that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away.
Overconfidence is a failure of imagination. Imagine an alternative to your expectation, and your judgment improves.
You’re a coward with a lion’s roar. I was wrong, so wrong about you.
People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps… Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What’s so sweet about that?
The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
You told me my hands were soft because you had no idea what they’d touched.
He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.
Even if you know what’s coming, you’re never prepared for how it feels.
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.
It’s never the changes we want that change everything.