Pastoral Resources

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.