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“Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.”

Years Children Sometimes Bits Parent Promise Disappointment Step Children

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement

“When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”

Littles Successful Promise Disappointment Delight Being Successful Peculiar Schemes Defence Vexation

Book:Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.”

“Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.”

Realizing Promise Expectations Raises Disappointment

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.”

Promise Raises Disappointment Cruelty Deceiving Dependence

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“I truly feel sorry to all the fans of the games I have made. Ninja Gaiden 2, which will launch on the 3rd of June will be the last Ninja Gaiden I will create. I will also never be able to make Dead or Alive 5. I regret the circumstances that have forced me to leave Tecmo, where I had worked for so many years, and I regret the disappointment this will cause my fans. However, I can no longer continue to work with President Yoshimi Yasuda, a man who chooses not to honor promises even when he is able to do so. I truly hope that nothing like this happens again in the future.”

Men Feels Years Made I Can Happens Able Lasts Games Causes President Alive Fans Regret Honor Circumstances Promise Sorry Disappointment June I Regret Ninja

Author:Tomonobu Itagaki

“Yes, pain, disappointment, frustration, and anguish can be temporary scenes played out on the stage of life. Behind them can be a background of peace and the positive assurance that a loving Father will keep His promises.”

Pain Father Peace Behinds Stage Promise Scene Disappointment Backgrounds Frustration Temporary Anguish Assurance Stages Of Life

Author:Richard G. Scott

“I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.”

Thinking Littles Environment Politician Promise Regard Disappointment Officials Elected Officials Little Faith

Author:Paul Watson

“While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.”

People Important Remember Father Literature Progress Promise Disappointment Keepers

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”

Men Political Politics Freedom Liberty Promise Vote Disappointment Libertarian Voting Disappointing Breaking Promises Keeping Promises Kept Promises Elections And Voting Promises That Are Broken

Author:Bernard Baruch

“I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.”

Way Want Moments Helping America Wish President Can Do Accepting Promise Succeed Disappointment Division President Obama Can Do Something

Author:Mitt Romney

“Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.”

“But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.”

Ifs Firsts Ends Might Chance Taught Promise Shining Disappointment Bitter Bitter Disappointment

Book:Sophia's Secret

Source: Sophia's Secret