For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay;… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no… — B. B. Warfield Copy Share Image
Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“Oh, I beg your pardon!” she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Raphael continued to stare at me, in no hurry to get started. "You know the best way to get rid of a… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have… — John Banville Copy Share Image
When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to… — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
“To his dismay, it sounded as out of place in this somber laboratory as the book looked out of place, and he… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born upon this day, To save us… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Look, I'll fight, too. What do you think it is? Bear, coyote...?" "My brother." "Your..." Dismay pooled in Mark. She'd just stepped… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when - for the first time in the history of planet Earth… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Its three in the morning,' she noted with dismay. 'Do you think Simon’s all right?' 'I think he‘s weird, actually,' said Jace.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. ʺI need a coffee shop or something.ʺ ʺI think I saw… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Much to my dismay”—and that rang clear in the irritably flat tone of his voice—“I find I have a sudden taste for… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
![“... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was…” quote by Anna Julia Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/anna-julia-cooper-14164_arcs_a-girl-one-day-flared-out-and-told-the-p_594696.jpg)
