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“I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.”
“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”
“My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.”
“What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing”
“After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches ...”
“He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.”
“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”
“Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.”
“Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.”
“Frustration often steers you to the right path.”
“I was the one thing he had to deny-- the beautiful truth within his terrible lie.-who knew such a young heart could shatter?”
“My husband has never been one to catch the subtleties of a situation. He called every Valentine's Day to ask if I wanted him to stop on the way home to get a card. Every year I said no, don't bothe...”
“It's easy to love someone you haven't let down.”
“he tried to prepare himself for disappointment, even as he yearned to be proven wrong”
“Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.”
“It indicated to me,' Jane replied with brutal candour, 'that you're some sort of good-looking, lazy layabout who drifts around the world sponging off people and he'd rather not let you get your han...”
“I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can ...”
“Disappointment means that things havent worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forwa...”
“Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But Im over it.”
“Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.”
