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.

Joe Girardi

He's got no fear. He could throw all of his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes this spring. He's come a long way in a short period of time.

Margarita Chaves

His pupils were dilated. I'll never forget that look in his eyes.

Jillian Robbins

I was just watching their eyes, and they were looking at who they were about to pass to. So I said, 'I've got to get this. I've got to leave it all on the floor.' My teammates had my back, so I went for it, and it worked out.

William Wilberforce

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Carl Jung

But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.

Carl Jung

He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.

Willie Nelson

We may have been poor, but my sister, Bobbie, and I were taught to hold our heads up high. Whether you're young or old, when you meet someone, you look 'em in the eye and speak up so you can be heard. When you look a person in the eye, you're not trying to hide who you are, plus you get a pretty good idea of who they are.

Jason Varitek

He was sick with some kind of virus, he was coughing, he had thrown up, his eyes looked terrible, he had lousy stuff, and yet he kept the Royals from scoring,

Vince Carter

He was relentless. He wanted to win this game. You could see it in his eyes.

Richard DeVos

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Warren Buffett

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

Sandra Bullock

False expectations take away joy.

Rosemary Clooney

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

Kevin Smith

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.