Disappointment Quotes - Page 40

• The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous, and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

  James E. Faust

  Children, Parent, Depth

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• I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass.

  Joel Osteen

  Opportunity, People, Problem

  Joel Osteen (2012). “I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Jesus, Years, Two

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• There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Thinking, Race, Idols

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• Is that all? The mountain in labor has brought forth a mouse.

  May Agnes Fleming

  Mountain, Mice, Labor

  May Agnes Fleming (2014). “The Baronet's Bride: Or a Woman's Vengeance”, p.38, The Floating Press

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• My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

  Rosalynn Carter

  Years, White, Rights

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• I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Expectations, Expecting

  Mary Russell Mitford (1872). “Letters of Mary Russell Mitford: Edited by Henry Chorley. In 2 volumes. I”, p.116

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• Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Art, Real

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Children, People, Suffering

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.209, First Avenue Editions

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• You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

  Queen Victoria

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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• Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sex, Spots, Humiliation

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• if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of world order, then we are heading not simply towards great disappointments, but towards disaster and tragedy as well.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Thinking, Self, Order

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• no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Want, Possibility, Performances

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• True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Light, Benefits, Contradiction

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• In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Sympathy

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.3149, Delphi Classics

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• The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Compassion, Average, Sorrow

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• At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Education, Wall, Heart

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• It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

  Margery Allingham

  Spring, Optimistic, Agony

  Margery Allingham (1943). “The Galantrys”

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• I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

  Anne Roiphe

  Family, Sex, America

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• We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.

  Susan Jeffers

  Eye, Expectations, Missing

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.135, Random House

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• there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Fall, Thinking, Spirit

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• Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Shadow, Sides, Trials

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

  Minnie Pearl

  Made, Shows, Grows

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• In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.

  Virginia Satir

  Hurt, Jobs, Children

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• My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Lost, Grows

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “At the Bottom of the River”, p.23, Macmillan

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