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.

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.

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.

Brian Tracy

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

Bruce Lee

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

Anthony Hopkins

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

Ann Brashares

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Chuck Palahniuk

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Chuck Jones

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

Anna Friel

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

Ambrose Bierce

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Douglas Adams

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

Czeslaw Milosz

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

T. S. Eliot

To make an end is to make a beginning.

John Milton

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Shawn Ryan

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

George Orwell

The end was contained in the beginning.

George Bernard Shaw

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

Emma Forrest

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.