Ernest Cline Quotes

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it, and you have to open your heart to what the world can show you; and sometimes it's terrifying, and sometimes it's incredibly beautiful, and I'll take both. Thanks.

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

You can't always get what you want.

The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

There's always going to be something. Can't be perfect.

I have realized that there is no point making plans, because it'll never end; you're never going to win the world. I thought at one point in time I am going to do that, but you cannot. So I am just enjoying myself.

I have realised that life is never perfect.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

It's a sad and beautiful world.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.