Disappoint Quotes - Page 12

• Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long

  Anthony D. Williams

  Mother, Long, Mankind

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• If you do not pray, everything can disappoint you by going wrong. If you do pray, everything can still go wrong, but not in a way that will disappoint you.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Way, Praying, Stills

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• Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hate, Naked, Earth

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.749, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.55, Harper Collins

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• Beautiful fans of Oklahoma City, I can’t say enough about you guys. All the support you give our team. The home-court advantage we have is the best I’ve ever seen. We disappoint you sometimes, but we try our best every single night to win for you guys. And we want to win a championship for you guys.

  Kevin Durant

  Beautiful, Team, Home

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.

  Bobby Orr

  Winning, Night, Nhl

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• You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

  Ani DiFranco

  Running, Lame, Want

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• God never disappoints anyone who places his trust in Him.

  Basilea Schlink

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• Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

  Erica Jong

  Dream, Cities, Venice

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Not wanting to disappoint is what pushed me to be successful.

  Jerry Rice

  Successful, Nfl, Being Successful

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• Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

  Caroline Knapp

  Dog, Fantasy

  Caroline Knapp (2010). “Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs”, p.35, Dial Press

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• Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

  Mike Tyson

  People, Sometimes

  Interview with Earl Sweatshirt, www.mtv.com. December 18, 2014.

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• You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Ideas, People

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• The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us more adaptable. Some changes threaten, or disappoint other members, who may try to resist the change, or punish someone for changing.

  Terri E Apter

  Change, Trying, Development

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• That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Perfection, May

  Harold S. Kushner (2003). “Living a Life that Matters”, p.124, Anchor

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• It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

  Betty Smith

  Disappointment, Children, Teaching

  "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

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• Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wise, Hurt, Optimistic

  Knox College Commencement Address, departments.knox.edu. June 03, 2006.

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• I’m so sorry to disappoint you,” she said, breathing hard. “But it would take far more than that to scare me.” A quick flex of his arms, and their bodies collided. And he whispered, just as his mouth fell on hers, “God, I was hoping you’d say that.

  Tessa Dare

  Sorry, Breathing, Scare

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• She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Soccer, Team, Sky

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die a slow death in bureaucracy and that explains a lot of the problems.

  Robert M. Edsel

  Boss, Important, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.

  John Armstrong

  Wind, Air, Firsts

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.

  Herbert Spencer

  Strong, Agency, Effort

  Herbert Spencer (1871). “Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic”, p.77

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• I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Fields, Failing, Slave

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• I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Getting What You Want, Cautionary Tales, Bounds

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• There are times when people that you put in those positions make mistakes, they disappoint you, you lose their - you lose your confidence in them, or they lie to you. And when you find that out, the test of leadership is what do you do?

  Chris Christie

  Mistake, Lying, People

  News conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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