When you’re traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourself and your place in the world. It means concentrating on yourself, thinking about yourself...

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I’ll be free to have an honest heart.

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by...

I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of...

Even the ones who love you most will let you down. They are the ones who will disappoint you more because your expectations of them are higher. When you feel like they have let you...

Exceptions A permanent source of disappointment

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a...

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

If a woman named Ms. Silver won a gold medal, she’d probably be a little disappointed she didn’t place second. My love always finishes first, while my love always comes second.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer’s leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting;

…Mrs. Bostwick’s face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

Hopefully, we win six games, and we never have that feeling of disappointment.

Was I still myself? If so, who was I? I wasn’t really interested in knowing that. It had no sort of importance for me anymore. Some moorings had broken, some taboos had fallen, and a...

Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

There is a lot of disappointment that we were unsuccessful with the eradication program… as a state.

…they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.

We had a great season, and for it to just end now would be a great disappointment for everybody, especially our seniors. To be at this point where we’re at right now and to see...

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I didn’t ask you to give up anything for me,” she told him, “but I would have given up everything for you.” The war is over, and I have lost. War. Ha! As if she...

Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.

‘I don’t believe there is a God’, I said fiercely, ‘and if there is, He’s not the merciful being He’s always depicted, or He wouldn’t be always torturing me for His own amusement.’

Don’t let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow’s blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

…never be disappointing – you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing…

A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight’s just too heavy on the one side, and the other can’t lift to it.

I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind’s history must be scored bloody with heartbreak....

The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there’s no use continuing such behavior when you’re dead.

When you put yourself and your interest ahead of the people you intend to serve, it doesn’t take long to find out that it’s a recipe for disappointment.

Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at this age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. She understood that...

A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one… Keep reading to acquire more knowledge! Let books be your friends; never disappoint them by not studying them...

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.

I think most Christians hear these urgent calls to do more (or feel them internally already) and learn to live with a low-level guilt that comes from not doing enough. We know we can always...

I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my...

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how...

Happiness is Tolerance. If you join the perfectionist ‘ s club, be ready to live most of your life disappointed, offended and lonely

Niagara … is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

I saw Dad’s eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn’t want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I’ll...

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the...

… And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

Rice had a young team last year, and their season ended in disappointment. Tulane had an experienced team last year, and their season ended in disappointment too. [Both teams] rebuild every year, and we know...

Hope isn’t destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it’s the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful;...

I look forward to getting my hopes up. I have an appointment for disappointment.