Quotes About Disappointment

Even with battleproofed beliefs and the distinguished thinking of a world-class mindset, you won't win if your heart is full of anger, sadness, disappointment, resentment and fear.

Dex's mother knew what it was to lose herself in someone brighter, to be trapped by the gravitational field of another sun. She knew what happened when it emerged that the sun was only a lightbulb, and what happened when the lightbulb burned out.

We don't take it too seriously, said Harry. —What? —The golf. —To avoid the disappointment, said Liam.—The same with everything. That's what it's all about now, isn't it? From here on in. Avoiding disappointment.

For the last week or so it's like getting jabbed with a little needle every time I hear that word. Gram is trying to pretend how excited she is I'm finally in the eighth grade, like this is a really big deal. Which is a joke, because the only reason I got passed from seventh grade is because they figured this way the big butthead can be — quote — someone else's problem, thank God, we've had quite enough of Maxwell Kane — unquote.

A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

You know a movie is slow when you start looking to see what time it is. You know it's awful when you start shaking your watch to see if it has stopped. One

You look at them and wonder how, at any stage of the production, anyone could have thought there was a watchable movie here.

We got two gold-record singers and they don't sing? So? We got five Oscar-winning actors and they don't need to act much.

Realism...is a kind of disappointed tribute to the ideal.

You fertility deities are worse than Marxists, he said. You think that's all that goes on between people. We were just friends for a time, but she is too hard on her friends and so loses them.

A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. 'I shall be yours,' she told him, 'when you have spent a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my window.' But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away.

Disappointment of various places and trips. Not really comfortable anywhere. Very soon, this cry: I want to go back! (but where? since she is no longer anywhere, who was once where I could go back). I am seeking my place. Sitio.

Finally, he flung his hat on the ground in disgust and fumed, "Are these the men with whom I am to defend America?

Early disappointments with people left Washington with a residual cynicism that was to jibe well with Hamilton's views.

Se John Kirwan Venton tinha esperanças de pôr as mãos na herança de Ann, foi frustrado pela prudência do sogro, que deixou dois sétimos de seu patrimônio para Ann, mas especificou que Venton estaria excluído do dinheiro, referindo-se a ele como pessoa "lamentável em sua conduta".

the visit was somewhat unsatisfactory.

He had let them down again. After a year, it was decided that the house would be completely revamped.

Grant proved remarkably fair-minded, declaring that "should there be any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent counting on either side it should be reported and denounced at once . . . Either party can afford to be disappointed in the result but the Country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion of illegal or false returns.

It's like walking out of a movie. Being made to walk out of a movie that you're really enjoying. That's what worried me about it. I would never know how it turned out.

the coffee was burnt and stewed.

On some deep level, we may choose to fill our days with busy work as a way to avoid the inevitable pain and disappointment in accepting that who we are may not be who we thought we were.

It's peculiar, to reach your destination," he told me. "You think you'll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go.

in 1904 he applied for a promotion from patent clerk third class to patent clerk second class and was turned down.

When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them.