Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

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

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

I've got a lot of silvers. Second seems to be something I end up being. I don't want to be the bridesmaid forever.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

I kind of felt like I was never good enough. I always wanted more.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

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.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.