Disappointing Quote by Jussi Adler-Olsen Download Open image “But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.” — Jussi Adler-Olsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disappointing Ignorance Promise Prove
PROMISE is just a word. No deeper meaning. So don't depend on promises, because it's better to be surprised than to be dissapointed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't be such a fool, believing stupid promises which would only lead you to extreme insanity when it isn't accomplished. — Dimple Andos Copy Share Image
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Live your life without expectations because it's better to be surprised than it is to be disappointed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards” — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“When he turned round with the cup to his mouth, nostrils titillated by the aroma of a sun that had once shone on a… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“He'd make her work so hard that a job as a cardboard-box presser at the margerine factory would seem like paradise.” — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“It was late in September and a little more than twenty degrees, so what the hell were people smiling for? They ought to be… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“She was a bitch,' Carl suddenly heard somebody say in the background, and that apparently refreshed everyone's memory. Yes, thought Carl with satisfaction. It's… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that a crime was committed?” the female reporter asked in that excessively empathetic way that’s designed to make inferior news coverage… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“Carl Mørck, am I disturbing you? said a voice at the door, which made his blood boil and turn to ice at the same… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“In tiny Denmark the system was so ingenious that if you knew some dirt about somebody, they also knew something just as bad about… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“Assad ristet på hodet. «Du prøver ikke å treffe, Carl, du skal treffe. Gi meg pistolen.» Han grep uten videre pistolløpet og dro våpenet… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of him, where cause and effect were… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
“Carl: Do I happen to see a twinkle in your eye, or do you always look so fantastic Lis? Lis: Carl dear, the twinkle… — Jussi Adler-Olsen Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it seems to… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then… — Mirah Copy Share Image
What's disappointing about @usopengolf is the fans not being about to walk around the course/get close enough to most of the greens to cheer.… — Billy Horschel Copy Share Image
For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions...… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
