Quotes About Disappointment

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Thank you for nothing.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

You may as well expect pears from an elm.

What matters is not what he has now, but what he might obtain if he does as others want him to do. Caught in the treadmill of social controls, that person keeps reaching for a prize that always dissolves in his hands.

Gdy? czÅ'owiek w swej zÅ'oÅ›ci jest okrutniejszy i bardziej zatwardziaÅ'y ni? krokodyle Rzeki. Jego serce jest twardsze ni? kamieÅ". Jego pró?no?? jest l?ejsza ni? pyÅ'. Zanurz go w wodzie, a gdy odzie? jego wyschnie, bÄ™dzie taki sam jak przedtem. Pogr?? go w trosce i w rozczarowaniu, a gdy siÄ™ znów podniesie, bÄ™dzie taki sam jak przedtem.

False hope damages both parties in a relationship. We want the other person to change, and we hope and pray for the best. But the other person is responsible for their own choices and the consequences of those choices. If we think that our being consistent will make them change, we're taking responsibility for them. If they don't change, we've set ourselves up for disappointment.

My parents sent my brother through law school. He graduated. Now he's suing them for wasting seven years of his life.

My dad never did anything, though," Jenna continued. "He never . . . I don't know, he never went off to join the star force so he could help guard ships, or anything. I don't know if it was even because he was scared to. I think it's just that he wouldn't have got paid enough.

Two people may suffer the same disappointment, one might be saddened, the other understanding. Two people may receive the same insult, one might be hurt, and the other compassionate. Two people may have the same disagreement, one might be angered, the other feel love. How you react to circumstances, people and things, IS A CHOICE, YOUR CHOICE... based on YOUR use of compassion, understanding and love.

you raise them the best you can, make all the sacrifices in the world, give them all the love in the universe, and all they do is break your heart." After lunch they called

Turns out I was wrong. Truth is I just couldn't do it any more.

Smiler, this damn tea so weak it nearly a fortnight!

There's something inherently disappointing about success,' from Topsy-Turvy, a Mike Leigh film about Gilbert and Sullivan.

Nick said. "Failing at school, failing at baseball…" The last part just came out, one last part of this he couldn't stop if he'd tried: "… failing at being your son." For the second time that day, Nick ran.

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

Well, if that's me dinner, I've had it.

God always listens to my prayers, then does the exact opposite.

So you're saying that after I take a disappointing shower I should get in bed and lay there and weep?

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

When they stepped out of the taxi and approached the hotel lobby, she mustered up the courage to take Nick's hand. He quickly let go, frowning at her. "I thought we were supposed to be married," she said, a little hurt. "We are. Five years, Elaine. No married couple holds hands after five years.

Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he said hopefully on the first day of school. However, when classes were over he was noticeably quiet. Well?" I asked him. He shrugged dejectedly and admitted, "She still the same.

she wanted to shake him, because in all her life she had never expected this kind of loneliness.