Disappointment Quotes - Page 28

• What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Integrity, Luxury, Soul

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

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• I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.

  Munir Butt

  Party, Blow, Reality

  Foreign Affairs, 2009.

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• The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Wise, Expectations, Anxiety

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• Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

  Brian Grazer

  Hurt, Eye, People

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• To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, Years, Wind

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• None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

  Samuel Johnson

  Exercise, Design, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.217

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• Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

  Rufus Sewell

  Years, Acting, Depth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

  Rufus Sewell

  Layers, Depth, Compromise

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• When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

  David Morrissey

  Rejection, Hazards, Actors

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• While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.

  Mia Tyler

  Beauty, Problem, Made

  Mia Tyler (2008). “Creating Myself: How I Learned That Beauty Comes in All Shapes, Sizes, and Packages, Including Me”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

  Elizabeth Ray

  Ambition, People, Here And There

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• You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

  Emilie Loring

  Heartache, Sorrow, Finals

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• For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country ... not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change,” she said. “I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.

  Michel'le

  Country, Moving, Frustration

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• Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

  Shimon Peres

  Leader, Doubt, Faces

  Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Doubt

  Speech at Annual National Prayer Breakfast, www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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• You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'

  Wole Soyinka

  Shame, States, Bigs

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• We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

  Maeve Binchy

  Betrayal, Hero, Loss

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• People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappointment them, or, if they do, the owners manages to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.

  Ann Patchett

  Dog, Acceptance, Pride

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• I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

  Eleanor Catton

  Effort, Littles, Unified

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• I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

  Cameron Crowe

  Heart, Apology, Choices

  "Cameron Crowe apologises for casting Emma Stone as 'part-Asian' in Aloha" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Maturity, Contradiction, Enormous

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• Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Reality, Space, How To Love

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• The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Reality, Expectations, World

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• Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.

  Marcel Proust

  Garden, Self, Long Ago

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.112, Modern Library

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• If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Zoos, Zebras, Real

  "Joy in the Merely Real". Summary of the Joy In The Merely Real sequence, wiki.lesswrong.com. October 2009.

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