Let Down Quotes - Page 2

• When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

  Georges Bernanos

  Laughter, Book, Thinking

  Georges Bernanos, Pamela Morris (1975). “The diary of a country priest”

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• Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even.Comfort the ones i've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gustoand do what's' right and finish strong.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Hurt, Prayer

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• An author's first duty is to let down his country.

  Brendan Behan

  Country, Firsts, Duty

  "The Cynic's Lexicon: A Dictionary of Amoral Advice". Book by Jonathon Green, p. 20, 1984.

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• One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.

  Mark Teixeira

  Couple, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Happiness, New Year

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• Angeline made a few more attempts to break away, but when it became clear she couldn't, those around us began whistling and cheering. A few moments later, that dark and furious look vanished from Angeline's face, replaced by resignation. I eyed her warily, not about to let down my guard. "Fine," she said. "I guess it's okay. Go ahead." "Huh? What's okay?" I demanded. "It's okay if you marry my brother." (Next chapter) "It's not funny!" "You're right,"agreed Sydney, laughing hysterically. "It's not funny. It's hilarious.

  Richelle Mead

  Brother, Cheer, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.110, Penguin

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• The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure of acceptance that he was never going to get over. He just wanted to live, honestly and out front, with no apology. Like everyone else. To love who he loved, be who he was… but society had a different standard, and as he always feared, his parents were a part of that.

  J.R. Ward

  Mother, Apology, Acceptance

  "Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood".

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• It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Passion

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• Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!

  Rachel Cohn

  Hair, Cried

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.110, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.

  Dennis Lehane

  Real, Hate, Winning

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• Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Thinking, People, World

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.69, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

  John Dos Passos

  Change, Break Up, Being Alone

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.443, Transaction Publishers

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• And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

  Jack Dee

  Real, People, Laughing

  "Question time: Jack Dee". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.

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• When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Single, Divorce

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.70, Lulu.com

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• In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down.

  Howard Schultz

  Lying, Exercise, Years

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• The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn’t turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn’t mean quite so much, if I weren’t forced to analyze where I’ve been and where I’m going.

  Emily Giffin

  New Year, Fun, Regret

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

  Mary Oliver

  Fire, Pockets, Rope

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

  Pope John Paul II

  Courage, Catholic, Mediocrity

  Song: Cristo E Liberazione, Album: Abba Pater

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• When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

  Catherine Ponder

  Relationship, Forgiveness, Emotional

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• One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Book, Home, Knights

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.16, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.

  Hans Zinsser

  War, Civilization, Shadow

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• We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Hurt, Attitude, People

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.

  David Deida

  Love, Spiritual, Order

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the dark, my master let down his guard and he was Caleb again. He didn't correct me. He didn't punish me. He didn't push me away emotionally. Caleb was there to hold me until the nightmares passed. He was there to tell me I was beautiful. He was there to tell me I was going to be okay. In the dark, he seduced me. I didn't want the seduction to end.

  CJ Roberts

  Beautiful, Dark, Want

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• Gandhi felt fascinated at knowing Christ. He met Christians, and felt let down.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Knowing, Mets

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