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„Brutality!’ cried Tristam. The class was at last interested. ‘Beatings-up. Secret police. Torture in brightly lighted cellars. Condemnation without trial. Finger-nails pulled out with pincers. The rack. The cold-water treatment. The gouging out of eyes. The firing squad in the cold dawn. And all this because of disappointment. The Interphase.“
„If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.“
„I was confident that something good would come out of yet another difficult and disappointing case.“
„I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I’ve done.“
„I had the greatest difficulty in explaining to people that there is no hidden, coded meaning in the film, nothing beyond the desire to tell the truth. Often my assurances provoked incredulity and even disappointment. Some people evidently wanted more: they needed arcane symbols, secret meanings.“
„The intervening time to my first inauguration was filled up with wranglings between Congress and the new Executive as to the best mode of “reconstruction,” or, to speak plainly, as to whether the control of the Government should be thrown immediately into the hands of those who had so recently and persistently tried to destroy it, or whether the victors should continue to have an equal voice with them in this control. Reconstruction, as finally agreed upon, means this and only this, except that the late slave was enfranchised, giving an increase, as was supposed, to the Union-loving and Union-supporting votes. If free in the full sense of the word, they would not disappoint this expectation. Hence at the beginning of my first Administration the work of reconstruction, much embarrassed by the long delay, virtually commenced. It was the work of the legislative branch of the Government.“
„Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.“
„Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.“
„The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way“
„Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.“
„Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment is more normal than arrival.“
„We’re raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment“
„Shame resilience is the ability to say, “This hurts. This is disappointing, maybe even devastating. But success and recognition and approval are not the values that drive me. My value is courage and I was just courageous. You can move on, shame.“
„But there was no harshness in the eyes which, looking at the world from under their tawny eyebrows, gave the impression of a man ever alert to greet a redeeming instinct in others but often disappointed. He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.“
„We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.“
„It must be a great disappointment to God if we are not dazzled at least ten times a day.“
„We got to the moon, but have never done anything better since. I’m disappointed that we have not made more progress since Apollo. I don’t even see a plan that says we’re going to do better than Apollo to exceed that goal.“
„Ah, the poverty, the shortness the disappointment of human joy! For in reality car en realite, what is the duration of the supreme moment of love? It is nothing, an instant, a second perhaps. A second of ecstasy, and after that- dust, ashes, nothingness.“
„Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.“
„Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.“
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