Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

God sees hearts as we see faces.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

Douglas Adams

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

Abigail Adams

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

A. C. Benson

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

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.

David Einhorn

Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

David Ogden Stiers

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Dani Shapiro

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Daisaku Ikeda

Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.

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.

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.

Robert Burns

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Julian Barnes

A pier is a disappointed bridge.

Kurt Vonnegut

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Karen Armstrong

A science can diagnose a cancer and can even find a cure for it, but it can't, and a scientist will be the first to say, it's can't help you to deal with the stress and disappointment and terror that comes with a diagnosis, and nor can it help you to die well, like Socrates, kindly, not railing against faith, but in possession of your own death. For these imponderable questions people have turned to mythos.