Disappointment Quotes
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Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
Emma Willard
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The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
James E. Faust
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Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
Bolesław Prus
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The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn't created enough jobs, and it hasn't produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.
George Packer
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It would have been a great disappointment to me if Vibration did not somewhere make itself felt, for all scientistic mystics either vibrate in person or find themselves resonant with cosmic vibrations; but I am happy to say that on page 266 Teilhard will be found to do so.
Peter Medawar
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Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
Cordell Hull
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While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Bryant H. McGill
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You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
Queen Victoria
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
Barbara Demick
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I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.
Dave Goldberg
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Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!
Karen Salmansohn
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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
Gary Numan
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They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
Mary Wesley
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My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
Kimberly Willis Holt
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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.
Ashwin Sanghi
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A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.
Bill Hybels
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
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There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph Heller
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Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
Judd Nelson
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The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.
David Gower
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
Haley Joel Osment
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My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.
Lisa Unger
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He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.
Max Beerbohm
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Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.
Marvin J. Ashton