Quotes of Displeasure - somelinesforyou

“ The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ 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. ”

- Bruno Bettelheim

“ When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Obviously, given the level of his dissatisfaction, you would think they would have picked up on it and maybe done something constructive with it. ”

- Tom Daschle

“ If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out. ”

- Aristotle

“ People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes? ”

- Neil Simon

“ We're going to come back the exact same way we left off — as The Whispers. We do R&B music — lyric-conscious music that speaks to the adults. That's what The Whispers are all about. ”

- Walter Scott

“ No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner. ”

- Lee Westwood

“ Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. ”

- William S. Paley

“ What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. ”

- William Paley

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

- William Bridges

“ Frustration?. Disappointment.... We've been ranked No. 1, we haven't finished No. 1. ”

- Sue Murphy

“ I think there's a 41-game disappointment. ”

- Pat Riley

“ I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval. ”

- Jeff Beck

“ Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. ”

- Jeanne Robertson

“ When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable. ”

- Paul De Gondi

“ For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ”

- George Santayana

“ Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. ”

- Jackie Robinson

“ Suspense is worst than disappointment. ”

- Robert Burns

“ The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ Another occupation might have been better. ”

- F. H. Bradley

“ If anyone would have said, 'You'll be 20-3,' I'd have been extremely happy. But we have had disappointments. I guess you're always greedy, trying to get more. ”

- Bruce Weber

“ Suspense is worse than disappointment. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes. ”

- Doug Horton

“ Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air. ”

- Friedrich von Schiller
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