Disappoint Quotes
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Because you love me I have much achieved, Had you despised me then I must have failed , But since I knew you trusted and believed , I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
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It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.
william hazlitt— "On Will-Making"
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
jodi picoult— My Sister's Keeper (2004)
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelfThan that I may not disappoint myself,That in my action I may soar as highAs I can now discern with this clear eye.
Henry David Thoreau— Prayer, st. 1 (1842)
I'm not scared of dying, I just don't want to.If I stop lying, I'll just disappoint you.
robbie williams— Come Undone
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.
Albert Camus— "Letter to P.B." in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life much less intelligence beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.
arthur c. clarke— "Credo" (1991); also in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Essays, 1934-1998 (1999), p. 360
Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
margaret fuller— Letter to Reverend William Henry Channing (21 February 1841) quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 112.
It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.
david gemmell— Ch. 2 (The King Beyond the Gate)
What the inner voice says Will not disappoint the hoping soul.
friedrich von schiller— Hope, last stanza (1797).
One cannot continually disappoint a Continent.
Whistler— Propositions, 2
But you'll still save me though. Because he would, and you'd never do anything to disappoint your precious Doctor.
— Who: Madame Kovarian
— Source: The Wedding of River Song (2011)
— Notes: .
Define yourself and don’t fall victim to the whims and wishes of what others want you to be. Being who you truly are is where the world finds out the talent and genius you bring to it. Don’t disappoint the world by allowing others to control the gifts you have that to help make it better.
— Quoted in “Zoggle: Your Mind", p.323
Because you love me I have much achieved,Had you despised me then I must have failed,But since I knew you trusted and believed,I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
Paul Laurence Dunbar— Encouraged, in the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
