Pastoral Resources

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

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

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.