Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mary Wesley

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

Pablo Neruda

Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the heart, clawing at your insides. Hunger feels like pincers, like the bite of crabs; it burns, burns, and has no fur. Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven't eaten; let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow, and a plate like the moon itself from which we can all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.

Plautus

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

Philip James Bailey

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Pharrell Williams

Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

Paulo Coelho

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

Martin Scorsese

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

Marlene Dietrich

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

Maria Sharapova

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

Maya Rudolph

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

Matthew Arnold

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

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.

Michael Chabon

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

Michael J. Fox

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Theodore Parker

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

Michael Bolton

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Neale Donald Walsch

The purpose of relationship may not be what you think. If you are excited about forming a relationship based on what it looks like you can get, rather than what you can give, you have started off on the wrong foot entirely, and you could be heading for a big disappointment. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did.

Neale Donald Walsch

Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

Marcel Proust

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.

Joseph Barbera

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

LaVell Edwards

Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.

LaVell Edwards

Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.