Heraclitus Quotes

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

This is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first review.

Sometimes, things don't go your way. Sometimes, they do.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

Everything cannot go right all the time.

Losing has an unbelievably negative impact on me.

There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

Life isn't always wonderful.