Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Albert Schweitzer

Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

Evan Esar

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Aristotle

Talent is culture with insolence.

Arlen Specter

embedded deep in the culture of the country.

Mario Batali

English food in the last 30 years has come to grips with English products, their dairy culture and their cheeses and their creams and their seafood.

Georgia Perez

Eagles are very important to me and my culture.

Alex D. Linz

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

E. O. Wilson

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Andrew Cohen

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Mayim Bialik

I'm generally intimidated by adults.

Mark Leyner

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

Yehuda Berg

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.