Disappointment Quote by Mary Wesley

“They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.”

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I don't write for any particular kind of person.

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I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

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Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person…

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My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever…

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I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out'…

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Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all…

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It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

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I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

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That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they…

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You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from…

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We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out…

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Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

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Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before…

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We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

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Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities.

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“My earthly body has been a terrible disappointment to me.”

Frédéric Chopin

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The fear of not being good enough, the fear of disappointing other people and the fear of failure can really hurt one's personality and…

Dr Anil Kr Sinha

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In trying not to disappoint others; we disappoint ourselves.

Geraldine Vermaak

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Though there may be people in your life that support you and encourage you we have to realize that people are only human, and…

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There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,…

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In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten…

Margaret Thatcher