Disappointed But Not Surprised Quotes

#1. In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.

Albert Einstein

#2. He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived.

Ken Follett

#3. "You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

Stephen King

#4. It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

Bill Paxton

#5. Trusting others is all good and well, but distrusting them is better. People are rotten so always expect the worst in them. This way, when people don't turn out as bad as you thought they'd be, you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's a lot better than being disappointed. Also,

R Shaw

#6. Why did you make your people lambs, when the world is full of wolves.

George R R Martin

#7. People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. If I'm surprised at where I'm at, it's probably because I'm not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I've listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Julia Glass

#10. If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.

Kinky Friedman

#11. It seems pretty clear that organic beings must be exposed during several generations to the new conditions of life to cause any appreciable amount of variation; and that when the organisation has once begun to vary, it generally continues to vary for many generations.

Charles Darwin

#12. Where there is yoga,
there is prosperity,
success, freedom and bliss.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#13. Isn't it better when people are pleasantly surprised rather than mildly disappointed by that which is you?

Stacey Turis

#14. Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

Sathya Sai Baba

#15. What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged and always disappointed.

Susan Sontag

#16. When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

Christopher Poole

#17. I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

Tabitha Soren

#18. Flora hadn't signed my yearbook. When I got it back from the cheerleaders, I skimmed over the last few pages and saw that every one of them signed except for her. I was disappointed but I wasn't surprised.

We were too much of everything to be summed up in a few sentences. -Sean Foster

Rainbowbrook

#19. People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

Mara Wilson

#20. I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.

Kitty Kelley

#21. You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

Rafael Palmeiro

#22. Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers were often disappointed - but seldom in themselves.

Laura Lippman

#23. I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

Viggo Mortensen

#24. Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture.

Richard K. Morgan