Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.

Samuel P. Huntington

Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.

Vera Wang

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Vincent Van Gogh

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.

Ryan Reynolds

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Wayne Dyer

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

Rodney Dangerfield

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

Sarah Dessen

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

Saint Basil

[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Sarah Dessen

You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

Wynonna Judd

I always go into a bit of a funk when the days get shorter and there's not enough sunlight.

Norman Rockwell

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

Barbara de Angelis

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

Pearl S. Buck

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Shaquille O'Neal

It is not about how much money you make. The question is are you educated enough to KEEP it.

Sharon Lee

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

Natalie Goldberg

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

Justin Theroux

I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Pat Barker

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Pat Boone

I hope a great young Reagan will emerge.

Jurgen Klinsmann

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.

Marianne Faithfull

Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.

Lily Allen

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

Pope Francis

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Not yet hardened, many young die good.

Tennessee Williams

Young, gifted, and destitute...