Unrealistic Expectation Quotes

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.

If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.

A romantic striving for an impossible ideal.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

I feel like I should be an NBA player.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

I might as well put up a trapeze on my front lawn and compete with some professional athlete, as go out speaking against Bryan.

…to hold that government may be founded upon community is to hold that there may be a black swan or a castle in the air.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

I walked by a dry cleaner at 3 am, and there was a sign: "Sorry, we're closed" You don't have to be sorry, it's 3 am, and you're a dry cleaner! It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open! I'm not gonna walk in at 10 am and say "I walked by here at 3 and you were closed - somebody owes me an apology!"

Nobody's perfect. And if you think they are, you're sadly mistaken.

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

I never imagined even playing in the NFL. It seemed like a pipe dream.

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire.

Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!

It is a pipe dream to think that that bill is going to the floor and be voted on.

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.

I will always love the false image I had of you.

To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.