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disappoints

«Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist»
«It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.»
«A pessimist is never disappointed.»
Author: Jack Cleary | About: Pessimism | Keywords: disappointed, disappoints, pessimist
«Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.»
«Pleasure disappoints, possibility never»
«PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
«Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.»
«Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.»
«Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.»
«If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.»