Daniel Handler Quotes

Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.

Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

Things always look better when you haven't seen them.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.

I have hope. I have no expectations.

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.