Quotes by category:Disappointment

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

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When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

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Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment.... by Sarah Dessen

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.

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To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

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Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

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Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose... by Sathya Sai Baba

Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.

Sathya Sai Baba

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Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday

Sathya Sai Baba

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Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment. by Scott Adams

Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.

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I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

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A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment... by Scott Raab

A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.

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Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love. by Scott Turow

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

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Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

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I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

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It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.

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Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.

Shalom Auslander

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We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is bui... by Shane Claiborne

We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.

Shane Claiborne

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I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

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