277 quotes found
“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”
“He had grown used to the idea that Dumbledore could solve anything.”
“I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.”
“How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?”
“A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.”
“I think a person who wants too much is asking to be disappointed.... I'd like to be good at just one thing.”
“Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authenti...”
“So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, s...”
“Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so excruciating that a hundred patients a year are committed to...”
“Its APPOINTED to live once, you wanna live twice?....u've been DISSAPPOINTED”
“Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.”
“I know how it feels when people look right through you, or worse, see you as something or someone other than what you are.”
“What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.”
“Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.”
“To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.”
“Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's ...”
“...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...”
“Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can...”
“I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably lea...”
“The more I see of the hounoured, famed, and great, the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal p...”
