A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined. — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
In order to meaningfully repent of the ways in which we violate love, we must recognize them. We won’t recognize self-protective patterns… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting… — Astrud Gilberto Copy Share Image
Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them. — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
I love working for myself. I've grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any disappointment in my career because everything that maybe didn't go my way was a learning experience. — Ali Krieger Copy Share Image
Life has so much disappointment and frustration! You just have to be strong to face it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Out of all the people in the world why does it have to be me who lives by a psycho bitch? — Raea Copy Share Image
Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing. — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me. I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and then… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image