Quotes About Constant Disappointment

#1. Why is life a constant disappointment?'
'Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true.

Victoria Connelly

#2. Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

Clare Short

#3. He lets his hand fall, and I catch it. Because I'm weak. Because I'm a constant disappointment to myself.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

William Howard Taft

#5. It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely resemble her books. Or rather, that the books in which she found its likeness were so unexciting.

Val McDermid

#6. We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Philip Yancey

#7. Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.

Robert G. Allen

#8. Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

Edmund Morgan

#9. People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#10. We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.

Tommy Ramone

#11. If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it.

Vann Chow

#12. Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Jeremy Clarkson

#13. The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

Peter Turchi

#14. What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

Robert Wyatt

#15. Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Tori Amos

#16. I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] ... but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

Linus Torvalds

#17. I self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#18. Nothing like a little chest pain to restore your faith.

Ray Romano

#19. Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#20. The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis.

Robert Jastrow