Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Gordon

I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.

Ben Gibbard

A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

Alfred North Whitehead

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

Aldous Huxley

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

Thomas Hardy

There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.

Thomas Frank

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

Stephen Covey

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

Scott Turow

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

Abraham Lincoln

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

M. Wolfe

The swelling had gone down and I'm just glad to be back playing. I couldn't wait to get back into the groove.

Barbara Walters

You should be glad you're doing features; (they're) happy, glad (stories).

Patrick Warburton

Even right now, I'm glad to be working.

Rob Potter

Every step you make is just a bonus. We're just glad to be here.

John Hoag

Every year, we do a Santa run and Bobby's always very glad to see us. We all know him personally.

Anna Akhmatova

That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.

Anna Nicole Smith

I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me.

Wendee Saintsing

We were just glad to go down there and get the win. St. Andrews is a hard place for us to play.

Lauri Hakala

Let's just say I'm glad that I stayed and nothing this year is the same as last.

Alan Dershowitz

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Chuck D.

On a number of occasions, he sliced people down. The tribe's lawyers were not able to shake my testimony.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Nicholas Johnson

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Arlen Specter

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

Lee Iacocca

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

Randy Mayes

When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, we're even older than most of the judges.

Gavin Maloof

It wasn't combative, but it wasn't positive. They weren't on the same page. We spoke to Ron and he was very positive. He told me he wants to play basketball, he wants to be here. That's all I know.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Anu Garg

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Katie Jacobs

Even though they are competitors, we really wanted to do the right thing by the users and give them other choices.

Mike Eaves

Even though we've slipped a little bit, we understand that at the end of the year is when it truly matters.

John Parsons

Even though he never said anything; you could just tell,

S. Hughes

You have welcomed me home, even though I'm here as a refugee,

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Marcus Spears

When I was recruited and after I signed, I had aspirations to be a tight end and thought I would be.

Johnny Damon

I would be jacked up. But I'd be worried about that high, tight pitch.

Mikael Samuelsson

I just wear tight skates, that's all. It's getting better, for sure. It's better every day.

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

David Morehouse

Time is tight in a two- to three-year span, not a two- to three-month span.

Tres Thomas

We wanted to keep it tight between the University and SMG until we got the go-ahead from the band.