When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“If you always tend to avoid disappointment, at least you have two issues to be dealt with: The first is to soften… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Never feel empty when the person you like turns you down, because not all people are smart enough to appreciate you. — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
“Don't let disappointment own your life. You can always rise above any situation.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Disappointments were not meant to destroy you. They were meant to strengthen you and give you fortitude to accomplish your God-given talent.… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents… — Charles S. Maier Copy Share Image
Don't put your hopes up too high. Don't expect too much, because the higher you are, the deeper you might fall. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about… — Saul David Copy Share Image
No expectations, no disappointments! I'm an optimistic...but sometimes it's just better not to expect anything at all...just wait and see! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians.… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As I look back and connect the dots, all I want to do is go back and hug my scared young self,… — Arfi Lamba Copy Share Image
There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment. — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“I could have told her that if something is disappointing I know it's not nothing because nothing is not disappointing.” — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Better not to get too attached to something that wasn’t certain - after all, doing so only invites disappointment.” — David Styles Copy Share Image
Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
