Yuan Yuan Tan Quotes

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

Sometimes, things you wish had happened don't, or there are things you wish you'd been able to do but can't.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.