Adora Svitak Quotes

I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

If you get too big for your boots, if you've got big dreams, you're gonna get them broken or shattered.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?

I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

Sometimes when you win, you think you're going to get everything to go your way.

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!"

Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.