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.

Ryan Reynolds

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

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.

Wole Soyinka

You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'

William Throsby Bridges

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

Alan Thicke

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Vin Diesel

This woman comes from the darkness into the spotlight and says, 'Get down here right this minute!'

Desiderius Erasmus

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Richard Gallienne

What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?

Andrew McMahon

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

Anthony Hopkins

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.

Alberto Manguel

Darkness promotes speech.

Terry Jones

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?