Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

If you get too big for your boots, if you've got big dreams, you're gonna get them broken or shattered.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

What can the harvest hope for...

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though.

I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.