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“Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers”
Arthur Helps
“Suspense is worse than disappointment.”
Robert Burns
“I guess it's disappointing for that kind of stuff to be coming out now,”
Ricky Ponting
“There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge -- but not a sausage.”
Billy Connolly
“In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.”
Lucy Stone
“What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power”
William Paley
“I didn't want to be disappointed, so I didn't expect it. Now I can be happy.”
Petr Prucha
“Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.”
Samuel Johnson
“Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I'm "very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall.”
Carly Fiorina
