#appointment

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#boast #how #kept #many #much

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#best #come #disappointments #greatest #often

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. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#after #august #changes #citing #commission

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#disappointment #love #soul #tragedies #love

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#clarity #comes #conviction #disappointment #gain

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#behavior #call #congress #continued #disappointment

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments. ↗

— Alan Young

#appointments #being #bench #concerned #court

When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep. ↗

— John Gardner

#experience #life #love #maturity #experience

I thought I was eating a candy bar, but it turned out to be a yummy burrito. I was both disappointed and appointed at the same time. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#candy #disappointed #disappointment #eating #food

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments. ↗

— Andrew Levkoff

#life-lesson #moderation #setting-goals #life