Disappointment Quotes - Page 20

• One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Girl, Religious, Horse

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• The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.

  Jamie McGuire

  Fall, Snow, Window

  Jamie McGuire (2012). “Beautiful Disaster”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

  Bill Willingham

  Destiny, Passive, Left

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• I made a vow to God [in 2010], after so many letdowns and the relationship with my ex, I knew I really didn't want to continue making the same mistakes anymore. Women nowadays, we connect physically too soon without actually getting to know the person. If you don't actually give this person your body and then they let you down, there really isn't a great disappointment; not like it would be if you have already connected physically. I started going on that journey, and I thought to myself, you know what, the next man that I give my body to will be the man that God brought into my life.

  Jessica White

  Mistake, Journey, Giving

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• There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

  Glenway Wescott

  Pain, Literature, Endure

  Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”

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• When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Children, Ambition, Missing

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• Life is a great disappointment.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Life Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.114, Mondial

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• A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

  Susan Cain

  Self, Our Society, Belief

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• We are all capable of living lives characterized by great joy. Within each of us is an amazing human spirit that is strong enough to overcome pain and disappointment. And no matter what our current situation happens to be, or what beliefs we may currently harbor about ourselves, we can tap into that inner strength and wisdom and move forward to create more joy.

  Salle Merrill Redfield

  Strong, Pain, Live Life

  Salle Merrill Redfield (2009). “Creating a Life of Joy: A Meditative Guide”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

  Terry Gross

  People, Trying, Watches

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• I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Real, Book, People

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• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

  Cyril Connolly

  Education, School, Boys

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

  Dan Millman

  Expectations, World, Release

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• Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Mistake, Grateful, Opportunity

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• Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

  Mary Schmich

  Baseball, Hangover, Loss

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital

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• Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.

  Bill Watterson

  People, Risk, Magic

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• Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Political, May, Today

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• We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

  Hannibal

  Good Man, Manners, Ability To Communicate

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• Winning or losing, it's always something special and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today. It's even more memorable when I see my kids there with my wife and everything. That's what touched me the most, to be quite honest. The disappointment of the match itself went pretty quickly.

  Roger Federer

  Memorable, Kids, Winning

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• People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Running, Ideas, People

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• Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Causes, City Planning

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.7, Vintage

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• The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Molecules, Study

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.1, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• You have to do disappointment twice.

  Jess Walter

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• Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, World

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• Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. ... “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,” ergo, shipwreck, losses, &c., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Country, Loss, Work Out

  "Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford".

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