Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. — Jewel Copy Share Image
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sadness at that age had the pleasing texture of imprisonment: you reared and sulked against the bonds of parents and school and… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“In freedom you form in utter disgrace, the bars of my prison this night. While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
You're not disappointed in what it is. You're disappointed in what you thought it would be. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It’s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. It’s going to take… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
“In this day and age — the great age of modernists — you don’t ruin a love by being unfaithful or unjust;… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the… — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
“In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.” — Anirudh Arun Copy Share Image
We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
