#disappointment

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#disillusionment #gilding #idols #touch #disappointment

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

— Anthony Powell

#children #disappointment #early #especially #fulfill

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that. ↗

— Shania Twain

#big #crises #deep #disappointments #emotional

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#because #disappointment #every #every time #focusing

Suspense is worse than disappointment. ↗

— Robert Burns

#suspense #than #worse

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#disappointment #feel #fighting #handful #hope

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success. ↗

— Roy Wilkins

#disengagement #easy #flight #hard #jumps

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

— Fred G. Gosman

#devastating #disappointment #disappointments #every #future

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#common sense #complexities #disappointments #focus #hassles

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of. ↗

— David Gower

#am #disappointment #double #england #get