Donna Summer Quotes

We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

Haircuts are never good. You always end up being unhappy.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

In the fall literally everything is broken. Nothing on this planet works. Every body is broken, none of our bodies works perfectly. Every relationship is broken. The weather is broken. I don't have a problem with hurricanes. Nothing works on this planet. This is not heaven, this is Earth and that is why we are to pray thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Why? Because God's perfect will is done perfectly in heaven. So I am to pray that done here.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.

Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened?

I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?