How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

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

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

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

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.