Quotes by Disappointment Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. Dean Koontz familydisappointmenthome Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments. Diana Peterfreund datingdisappointmentblood Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity. Dieter F. Uchtdorf frustrationprocrastinationdisappointment We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer. Dieter F. Uchtdorf gratitudedisappointmentsummer If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing. Donald Harington lonelinessdisappointmentwriting To me probably the biggest disappointments, as far as a football career goes, is I feel like I didn't live up to my potential, and I didn't win a Super Bowl ring. Donte Stallworth disappointmentwinningfootball Never be afraid of failure or disappointment, because those are just temporary experiences on the path to your dreams coming true Doreen Virtue disappointmentpathdream I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting. Dorothy Koomson disappointmentlongthinking Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation. Dorothy L. Sayers spotsdisappointmentsex A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Douglas Adams sorrowdisappointmentexpectations Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away. Dov Davidoff datingdisappointmentlying Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it! Dustin Milligan crazydisappointmentsports There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority. Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche disappointmentreligiousdrama When I'm unable to see a mistake I made right away. Maybe this is my Taurus mentality, but sometimes I don't see it and I don't see it and then, before you know it, I finally see it, and I'm like, "How the hell did I not see that? It was right in front of me all this time." And I have to look at the wake I left behind, the disappointment. That makes me feel weak. Dwayne Johnson disappointmentmistakesometimes Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity. Dwight L. Moody takendisappointmentchristian Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. Earl Wilson brokendisappointmentgolf Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest. Dwight D. Eisenhower teamdisappointmentbaseball [Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party. Dwight D. Eisenhower nuclearpartydisappointment For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living. Edith Grossman disappointmentathleteadventure For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over. Edgar Cayce disappointmentrunninghands«910111213141516171819»
