Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

Enough or not...it will have to do

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

Nobody was really happy but everyone could accept.

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

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

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

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

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

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

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

You can have all you can expect and accept.

If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.