Delilah Quotes

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

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

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

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?

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

When you want too much, you don't usually achieve much.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.