Disappointment Quotes - Page 10

• I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

  Geezer Butler

  War, Fighting, Years

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• The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

  John Cheever

  Adults, Culture, Emotion

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• You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

  Gregory Peck

  Dream, Thinking, Goal

  "The ArtSlut's Guide to Makin' It - As a Visual Artist". Book by Barb Benson, 2007.

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• A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

  Michael Chabon

  Half, Fulfilled

  "The Yiddish Policemen's Union". Book by Michael Chabon, 2007.

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• Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

  Judd Nelson

  Growing Up, Real, Heartache

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Kids, Surround Sound, Corny

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

  Charles Lamb

  Feelings, Curiosity, Newspapers

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• To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

  Samuel Johnson

  Darkness, Labyrinth, Employment

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.422, OUP Oxford

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• I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'

  Jack Canfield

  Self, People, Decision

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• Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Promise, Deceiving, Cruelty

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• Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

  Maria Jane McIntosh

  Soul, Holy, Aspiration

  Maria Jane McIntosh (1851). “Grace and Isabel: Or, to Seem and to be”, p.196

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• In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news. ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Change, Pain, Failure

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.229, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Order, Play, Quests

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us
  both.

  Aziz Ansari

  Cheating, Wife, Facts

  "Aziz Ansari: 'I've always been a feminist. There wasn't a period when I was against women and then started dating one'" by Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2015.

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• I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

  Jermain Defoe

  Religious, Blessing, Thinking

  "Prayer helped Defoe bounce back". Interview with "Football Focus", news.bbc.co.uk. December 22, 2006.

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• For most people, love is a response to need fulfillment. Everyone has needs. You need this, another needs that. You both see in each other a chance for need fulfillment. So you agree-tacitly-to a trade. I'll trade you what I've got if you'll give me what you've got. It's a transaction. But you don't tell the truth about it. You don't say, "I trade you very much." You say, "I love you very much," and then the disappointment begins.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Love You

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.111, Penguin

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• The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Littles, Reason Why, Rise Above

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, School, Emotional

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• If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Honesty, People, Anxiety

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• youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Summer, Expectations, Forever

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.2

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• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Betrayal, Mistake

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• It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

  Rich Robinson

  Music, Regret, Writing

  "Black Crowes have broken up, says Rich Robinson". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest
  has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

  Interview with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2011.

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• Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.

  Steve Goodier

  People, Broken, Cynical

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• I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

  Francine Mathews

  Passion, Writing, Events

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