John Oates Quotes

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

I know there are certain things that I just can't win.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

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

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.