Jim Horning Quotes

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

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.

Everything cannot go right all the time.

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work.

There are always going to be some complications.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

Life is extremely complicated.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

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

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is not mean to be easy.

It is not right to speak of the Socialist countries (and even the Soviet Union) as if everything always went well in them … In actual fact, in all the Socialist countries, difficulties, contradictions and new problems, which must be presented to their effective reality, are arising all the time.