#sap

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

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#choosing #disappointing #does #half #happiness

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#because #been #being #change #democracy

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

— Sarah Dessen

#disappointment

I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#always #believe #disappear #i #never

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. ↗

— George C. Williams

#biological #century #disappeared #foster #last

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

#disappointment #first #get #home #lead

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#field #gotta #i #make #money

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#because #disappointing #edited #essence #little

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. ↗

— Merry Browne

#better #disappointed #expect #helps #keep