Quote by Eric Ambler Download Open image ““but when you have been nourishing your soul on expectation, reality is apt to be disappointing.”” — Eric Ambler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I ask you to keep in mind that you will be disappointed only to the extent that your desires or expectations fall out of… — Jim Bainbridge Copy Share Image
“The biggest disappointments in life come from having expectations that life will be a certain way and then finding out it isn’t.” — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“I always have high expectations. I then cope with disappointments.” — Dominique Perregaux Copy Share Image
“It is not other people who inflict the worst disappointments, but the shock between reality and the extravagance of our imagination.” — Hélène Grémillon Copy Share Image
“ Keep your expectations low, Rip. Isn’t that what life has taught you? Best way to avoid disappointment.” — Meghan March Copy Share Image
“disappointment is devastating, even if it’s something that you didn’t really expect to occur.” — Hilary Grossman Copy Share Image
“Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.” — Sue Fitzmaurice Copy Share Image
“So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Always be realistic with your expectations. Too much expectation can only lead to frustration.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Don't let expectations distort reality. You would be wasting a very precious time.” — Muriel Maufroy Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed. Expect everything - or expect nothing.” — Hasse Jerner Copy Share Image
“If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
“It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesman, that shaped the destinies of nations. The Foreign Ministers of the great powers… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
“I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But that is… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image