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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!
It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.
Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.
My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing.
Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.
The way I've always dealt with disappointment or challenges in my life is to find the bright spot and focus on it.
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.
I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.
To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
The Savior knows the difficulties of the way and can guide us through whatever sorrows and disappointments may come.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.
We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.
You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.
I always felt capable of playing at the highest level. The biggest disappointment is that I've had a lot of injuries.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.
Life is a series of triumphs and disappointments. Once you harness the disappointments, your triumphs will be greater.
Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.
It would be a disappointment for me to take a job, as often happens, having to shoot out-of-town and not where I live.
... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
Some of you had big dreams, but you had some disappointments & now you think it’s over. But God is saying, Begin again.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.