Perpetual Disappointment Quotes

#1. Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.

George Will

#2. What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing

Willem Lange

#3. Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Robin Hobb

#4. The ultimate form of attraction is to be what you want to attract.

Bryant McGill

#5. A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.

Mason Cooley

#6. The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls.

Shinzo Abe

#7. You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#8. Sincerity is technique.

W. H. Auden

#9. To bear pain without letting it spoil your happiness is true valor.

Anonymous

#10. We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

Walter Savage Landor

#11. To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.

Robert Henri

#12. Peace, unity and harmony!

Cathy Freeman

#13. I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

Ashton Kutcher

#14. God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are.

Stasi Eldredge

#15. I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be.

Romola Garai

#16. Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

Euclid

#17. "Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.

Brian Henson