Cate Blanchett Quotes

Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.

Hope is a dream deferred.

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

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.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

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

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

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

It's a great time to be alive.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Things always look better when you haven't seen them.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.