Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Harrison

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Jens Lehmann

My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life...

Jim Gaffigan

What exactly are the ingredients of Ranch dressing? Mayo and disappointment?

Keenen Wayans

Everybody worked at a level they never worked before and will probably never work again. Our goal was not to disappoint the audience.

Robert Kiyosaki

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

Billy Graham

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

To the extent that those reports disappoint us, you may see rebounds.

Sherwood Anderson

Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.

Nick Frost

One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second Lord of the Rings film and having Gandalf in it. Why? He died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell 1000 more seats? It's daft.

Nora Roberts

She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.

Nicole Krauss

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Nastia Liukin

You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.

Nastassja Kinski

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

Monica Lewinsky

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

Ravi Zacharias

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

Michael Phelps

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

Michael Pollan

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

Michael Landon

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Oscar Wilde

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Maeve Binchy

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Margaret Oliphant

... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

Michel de Montaigne

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

Mark Twain

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

Mark Twain

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

Michael Bruce

But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.

Mason Cooley

Laughing at our friends, we avenge the disappointment they have caused.

Mason Cooley

I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.

Mason Cooley

We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.

Mason Cooley

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

Mason Cooley

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Mason Cooley

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.