Disappoint Quotes - Page 8

• Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wine, Pleasure, Possibility

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.

  Walter Wangerin

  Pain, Grief, Character

  Walter Wangerin (1993). “Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr”, Harpercollins

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• Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

  Jesse Jackson

  Winning, People, Vote

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

  Greg Kinnear

  Feels, Audience

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• There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

  Kevin Smith

  Zero, People, Expectations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

  John Oliver

  Congress, Capacity, Loses

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• when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Speak, Weary

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• People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, People, Regard

  Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

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• That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I have often thought about the matter since, but I have never succeeded in arriving at any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Possibly the result may have been brought about by the natural obstinacy of all things in this world. The boat may possibly have come to the conclusion, judging from a cursory view of our behaviour, that we had come out for a morning's suicide, and had thereupon determined to disappoint us. That is the only suggestion I can offer.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Suicide, Morning, Views

  Jerome K. Jerome, Geoffrey Harvey (2008). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

  Francine Rivers

  God, Godly, God Love

  Francine Rivers (2016). “The Francine Rivers Contemporary Collection: Leota's Garden / And the Shofar Blew”, p.669, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

  Randy Pausch

  Sorry, Hands, Play

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Alive, Want

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• All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Rivers, Waiting, Boards

  Elizabeth George Speare (1958). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

  Sarah Dessen

  Matter, Stranger, Worst

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.7, Penguin

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• He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

  Boris Pasternak

  Mother, Children, Men

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• Fine. Sit around being inconsiderate asses…and you wonder why none of you are married. (Zarina) (Sway cleared his throat meaningfully.) Oh, shush. You don’t count. You had an arranged marriage. These losers can’t get a girl for more than three and half minutes it takes them to embarrass themselves with their feeble gropings that always disappoint. (Zarina)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Three, Half

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• Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me

  Jonathan Stroud

  Sorry, Hero, Reality

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• Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Law, Knowing, Government

  Mark R. Levin (2006). “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Writing, Self

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• Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hurt, Optimistic, Self

  "Stephen Colbert Commencement Address". Transcript of remarks to graduating seniors at Knox College, departments.knox.edu. June 2006.

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• You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon and not as pensive of mind as Kenzie. They rely on each other too much. Saxon knows he can afford to be reckless since Kenzie acts as his conscience. And Kenzie can linger in his thoughts and plans, because he knows Saxon can defend him. I tested Kenzie earlier. I wanted to see if he would be swayed by my advice. It took Saxon's coaxing to make up the greyfur's mind. Be compleete with in yourself young redfur...you will never disappoint. Even in solitude.

  David Petersen

  Advice, Solitude, Mind

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• I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

  David Levithan

  Way, Know Me, Knows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.200, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Ideas, People, Execution

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.189, Random House

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• I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair.

  A. A. Milne

  Morning, Hair, Rose

  A. A. Milne (2013). “Once On A Time”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Long, Water

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