Quotes About Disappointment

There is no limit-disappointment.

and he has never been anything worse to me than incredibly, cringingly annoying. I married the wrong man, with an inkling at the time that that was what I was doing, and so it is my fault and I am stuck.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated.

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you...

Trong nhi?u n?m ròng rã, chúng ta c? tìm h?nh phúc, và nhi?u l?n t??ng ?ã ??t ???c nó ?? h??ng m?t cách lâu b?n. Nh?ng l?n nào ta c?ng th?t v?ng. Sau ?ó, ta l?i ti?p t?c ch?y theo ?o ?nh ?ó nh? tr??c.

Life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

It disappointed Jim that none of his fellow prisoners was interested in the war. It would have helped to keep up their spirits, a task which Jim was finding more and more difficult.

Women will not suffer their idol to step down from his pedestal. They do not forgive the slightest pettiness in a god.

Thwarted passion and mortified vanity are great babblers.

You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.

Era proprio vero che gli amici dei disgraziati sono dei disgraziati, mentre chi piace a chi ci piace di solito è una persona a posto. Una regola che quando fa eccezione genera sempre pasticci.

I shall not be disappointed to leave all you bastards behind.

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.

How many times since then have I rejected Love because it did not present itself the way I expected, in a form acceptable to me?

At last they reached Wild River. "This is it?" Bill gawked in dismay. Jordanna joined the men to stare at the dark bed of mossy rocks. "It is wild, isn't it?" she quipped, surprising herself with her own good humor when her shoulders, her back, her legs ached.

Recalling "Love Games," she returned to the present with a jolt and glanced at the set in time to find the show over for the day. She'd missed it!

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay due to our present situation, or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, unbounding love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy.

In government we have leaders who are perceived by and large as unable to do what they are supposed to do, to lead. In business we have leaders who are perceived by and large as able to do what they are supposed to do, to lead, but who nevertheless do so in ways that disappoint and dishearten.

Miss Limpsett was older, uglier and more untidy than I had remembered. She had obviously had a hard and tiring day, for her grey hair was awry as if she had been running her fingers through it, and there was ink on her fingers. Her face was haggard, and it occurred to me that it was not only this day which had been hard and tiring, but all days and even life itself.

And somehow I do not think we ever imagined the husbands to be quite so uninteresting as they probably were.

It was a "severe" disappointment to Henry Wilson who laid it all at the door of Kitchener and the Cabinet for having sent only four divisions instead of six. Had all six been present, he said with that marvelous incapacity to admit error that was to make him ultimately a Field Marshal, "this retreat would have been an advance and defeat would have been a victory.

Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.

the French, who had put large expectations in the abasement of Britain that American success would cause, had been disappointed by the weakness of the American military effort. Instead of an aggressive ally, they were tied to a dependent client, unable to establish a strong government and requiring transfusions of men-at-arms and money to keep its war effort alive.