We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“...dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing.” — Hollis Gillespie Copy Share Image
I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid. — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
That was the justice of Heaven. I trust that you are not dismayed. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the… — John Harwood Copy Share Image
This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Uncertainty as to our relationship with God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless.… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As someone who cares about human rights, I am deeply dismayed to learn that Mr. McCain's charity has accepted money from Saudi… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
We pray Thee, O Christ, to keep us under the spell of immortality. My we never again think and act as if… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil… — Arthur Byron Cover Copy Share Image
Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
