Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

When I'm tough on myself, I'm never satisfied.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

I can't get no satisfaction.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

You know, you don't please everybody.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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

You can't please all the people all the time.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

I can't make everybody happy.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

I won't please everybody every minute of the day.

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

I wanted to be a trophy wife, and I was fine with that. I thought I had my life written out - what it was going to be, what kind of woman I was going to be - and none of it happened.

I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.

I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

I don't think I can go back to New Orleans. I don't think that's possible.

I kind of felt like I was never good enough. I always wanted more.

There's a lot of pressure to make products better. I don't feel freer.