Quotes by Disappointment I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for. George Carlin disappointmentmistakepeople God sees hearts as we see faces. George Herbert disappointmentfacesheart My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them. George Clooney parentdisappointmentcollege Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. George Jean Nathan anniversarydisappointmentlove To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him. George Henry Lewes disappointmentplatoteacher Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell. George Jonas disappointmenthomebelieve Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. George Eliot disappointmentwisdommemorable At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue. George Packer disappointmentfearheart The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable. George Eliot vexationdisappointmentmay Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes. George S. Patton future-successdisappointment The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments. George Will disappointmentexpectationshistory Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? Gerard Manley Hopkins disappointmentwayart You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es George Eliot disappointmentforeverlying There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments. Glenway Wescott paindisappointmentliterature There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. George Eliot exaggeration-isdisappointmentmemories Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. George Orwell disappointmentlawlong 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 politicalhumordisappointment In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways. George R. R. Martin frustrationdisappointmentrunning But faithfulness can feed on suffering, George Eliot faithfulnessdisappointmentsuffering We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime. George Eliot men-and-womendisappointmentbreakfast«1516171819202122232425»
