"What really frightens and dismays us is not……" — Epictetus

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• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the… — Russell Baker
• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its… — Honore de Balzac
• When the quest of a dream has a detour or dip, look beyond your dismay and go finish the trip. — Wes Fesler
• The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and… — Eduard Suess
• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child… — L. Sprague de Camp
• I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both… — Ivanka Trump
• Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. — William Wordsworth
• The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The… — David Lloyd George
• Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to… — Primo Levi
• This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of… — Unknown Author
• I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay. — Jenna Bush
• I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive… — Sheri S. Tepper

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