If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed. "Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs." "Really?" "Oh, yes."… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed… — Norbert Capek Copy Share Image
Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something,… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
You can go to doctors until the last cow has been placed in its shed. You can journey the earth in search… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of a corrupt nature. It is contrary to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Jeff [Van Gundy] is really, really good and fun to listen to. And I would be disappointed if - I… — Joe Buck Copy Share Image
It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with.… — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Up a set and 2-0 it's definitely a situation where a little match practice would've helped, so I'm disappointed but think I… — Mark Philippoussis Copy Share Image
View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten.… — Nannie Helen Burroughs Copy Share Image
Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow… — Max Greenfield Copy Share Image
I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me,… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
Sometimes when a scene is written or directed to be shouted or played incredibly angrily, I always think it's way more terrifying… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image