Thomas Huxley Quotes

After you get what you want you don't want it.

So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'

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

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

I always want more, and that's just my life.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

… discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

People are tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They hear in Donald Trump someone who says, 'We can do better.'

The more I get used to my life, the more restless I become.

I was not satisfied at Rangers, not by a long way. I have hassles there, I had obstacles placed in front of me, and certain things never sat easily on my shoulders, and never will.

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

Things are always different from what they might be.