#disappointment

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man. ↗

— Hugh Grant

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Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#contributed #convincing #disappointment #fact #language

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#anything #arts #being #belief #devotes

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#friends #friendship #life #loneliness #friendship

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#appear #blessings #disappointments #figures #let us

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#being #certain #confusions #disappointments #feel

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#disappointment

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. ↗

— John Surtees

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

— Paul Cellucci

#disappointment #fully #states #supporting #united

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. ↗

— Martin Freeman

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