Davis Webb Quotes

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

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.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

Life does not owe me a shred.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

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

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

My dreams are all follies.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.