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Quotes About Disappointment

We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.
~ Jim Butcher
Now then Captain He turned back to Grim Your have questions, I answers, shall we see if they match? Please Grim said I appear to be your guest, have I you to thank for caring for me? Ferrus' shoulders sagged in evident disappointment Oh.... apparently they do not match... I was going to say strawberries!
~ Jim Butcher
Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.
~ Jim Butcher
Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
~ Jim Butcher
You know, sometimes I think Someone up there really hates me.
~ Jim Butcher
There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn't shown up or spoken to me for more than a year.
~ Jim Butcher
Mathematically, maybe," I said. "But trust isn't one of those things that lends itself well to math." "Sure it does," Bob said. "You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.
~ Jim Butcher
For the first time ever, Mickey Mouse let me down.
~ Jim Butcher
We're always disappointed when we find out someone has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down.
~ Jim Butcher
I hate it when a plan falls apart.
~ Jim Butcher
Clinton sighed, and gave up. All his life he had given up. He didn't know why it was like that; why a man who wanted nothing but to live honestly and industriously and usefully - who, briefly, asked only the privileges of giving and helping - had had to compromise and surrender at every turn. But that was the way it had been, and that apparently was the way it was to be.
~ Jim Thompson
Seek, and you shall be disappointed. Knock, and the door shall be slammed in your face.
~ Jimmy Fallon
Gwen: It's not going to work. Paul: Pardon me? Gwen: Cinderella's not going to sleep with you because you're taking the ugly stepsister to the ball. She'll still make you wait.
~ Unknown
Marriage is the classic betrayal
~ Joan Didion
As it happened I did not grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have know have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places that I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to that bend in the river where to cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where the artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I wait to hear.
~ Joan Didion
As it happened I did not grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places that I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to that bend in the river where to cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where the artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I wait to hear.
~ Joan Didion
On the drive back they told each other that it had been the wrong time, the wrong place, that it was bad because he had lied to arrange it, that it would be all right another time, idyllic later.
~ Joan Didion
When my father was told that I had been rejected from Stanford, he shrugged and offered me a drink.
~ Joan Didion
Io cucino quando sono irrequieta; mi piacciono le ricette semplici, la preparazione degli ingredienti, il sapere che, se seguo le regole, il piatto non deluderà mai. Se solo la gente fosse così. Se solo il cuore fosse così semplice.
~ Joanne Harris
It turned out that my curiosity did not outweigh my courage after all. Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.
~ Jodi Picoult
If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
~ Jodi Picoult
The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ some stories just don't have a happy ending.
~ Jodi Picoult