Disappointing Quotes (page 22)

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• book
• saying
• character

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film. Paulo Coelho

• disappointment
• evening
• bitter

Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay without. Robert Louis Stevenson

• disappointment
• may
• being disappointed

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. Beverly Sills

• disappointment
• disappoint
• you

You will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. Mark Twain

• father
• brain
• beautiful

But none of them laughed as hard about my beautiful brain as I knew my father would have. I miss him, the drunk bastard. I would always feel closest to the man who had most disappointed me. Sherman Alexie

• mindfulness
• mind
• busy

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

• disappointment
• bridge
• bridges

A pier is a disappointed bridge. Julian Barnes

• disappointment
• feeling
• feeling down

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. Charles Lamb

• disappointment
• blessed
• wife

Among all the disappointments and perplexities which have fallen my share in life, nothing has contributed so much to support my mind as the choice blessing of a wife.... John Adams

• look
• saying
• breakfast

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts -- not to hurt others. George Eliot

• wise
• disappointment
• tired

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed... T. E. Lawrence

• disappointment
• expectation
• expectations

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. Sylvia Plath

• disappointment
• opportunity
• grasping

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce

• accounting
• reality
• law

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience. Barack Obama

• evening
• god
• friendship

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. Oswald Chambers