#appointment

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

We may have agreed to end it kitty , but that didnt inlcude being warm and kind to me as a human ↗

— MKF - Screwed Life

#disappointment #love #pain #life

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

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#birthdays #charts #christmas #dirt #easter

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#disappointment #failure #holes #learning #loss

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#deal #disappointment #honestly #took #years

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#build #disappointments #i #myself #really

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#disappointment #fan #football #matter #natural