Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Manny Pacquiao

My fans were expecting me there and I did not want to disappoint them.

Eleanor Catton

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

Ben Jonson

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

Elizabeth Bowen

Disappointment tears the bearable film of life.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.

Right now I think you're in the indiscriminate phase of selling. There's more of (a feeling of) anticipation and paranoia about the possibility that some of the Dow stocks could disappoint even further.

John Baker

She will not disappoint the president early out of the box.

She's been our leader all year long. That's who we lean on for our offense and she didn't disappoint today.

Charles Spurgeon

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

Charles Payne

We knew it was coming but there were some rumors of a possible 50 basis point cut (a half a percentage point) and every time that happens it sets us up for disappointments. The reality is a very large majority of people don't know how to react to this so they're taking their cue from the market. It's really indecision.

Deborah Roberts

If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.

Brian Dopirak

I think anyone would be disappointed with a .230- something season. Now I've dealt with disappointment and hopefully I can bounce back and learn from it.

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.

Billy Corgan

The difficulty, if you're in the world - and this is for anybody - is the eventual disappointment that comes with having to meet other versions of reality. Imposed systems that ask you to compromise or sacrifice things which you consider holy or sacred.

Bill Cosby

I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.

Carlos Castaneda

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

David Healy

It's a list of housekeeping items. I hate to disappoint the people who want to panic over all this.

I'm glad Lawyer Ron didn't disappoint the people. It was a little tight on the first turn. But once he made the lead, I was confident, even though there were still 5 furlongs to run.

Sarah McLachlan

Everybody loves you when you're easy. . .Everybody hates when you're a bore. . .Everyone is waiting for your entrance, so don't disappoint them.

The voters of this town don't disappoint you, if you show them good, solid plans,

Today we tried to take a lot of pressure off ourselves and pick up those runs. We did a good job of it. Energy was never a question. Everybody was ready to go, we didn't want to disappoint our home crowd.

Cyril Connolly

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Dan Millman

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

Cornel West

When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease.

Cornel West

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

Conan O'Brien

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Peter Fonda

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

Dane Cook

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

David Levithan

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

Stephen Jay Gould

When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.

This week we saw Intel, Citigroup, and GE disappoint and that jarred the stock market.

Robert Burns

Suspense is worse than disappointment.