Quotes & Sayings About Being Crestfallen

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins. — Mahatma Gandhi

I couldn't shake the fear that Mason would follow through on a threat he said a year ago: No girl would come between him and his brother. Well. Hello. Here I am. — Tijan

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. -Babe Ruth — Babe Ruth

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane. — Ray Liotta

Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects. — Hanan Ashrawi

Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as so wild and horrid that it is impossible to behold them without terror. — Bill Bryson

And so the picture that I showed her that Sunday, a picture I'd seen countless times since I was a boy, brought home to me for the first time the strangeness of my relationship to the people I was interviewing, people who were rich in memories but poor in keepsakes, whereas I was so rich in the keepsakes but had no memories to go with them. — Daniel Mendelsohn

You believe in a loving God. Then along comes criticism, or rejection (say, a relationship breaks up), or some failure that's a blow to your reputation in some realm. Anyone in such a situation will feel quite crestfallen and downcast. But there is a difference between being discouraged and being devastated, between sliding into despondency and not being able to function. If God's love is an abstraction, it is of no consolation. But if it is a felt and lived reality through prayer, then it buoys you up. — Timothy Keller

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs. — Tom Odell

Don't be jealous of my boogie ... — RuPaul

Because if this being doesn't exist inside my head, if he exists outside, then he can get you too." This made him very obviously thoughtful and distant and then he said strange words to me I didn't expect. "But he doesn't want me, does he? And he doesn't want the others, either. He wants you." I was crestfallen. I am proud, I am an egomaniac of a being; I do love attention; I want glory; I want to be wanted by God and the Devil. I want, I want, I want, I want. — Anne Rice

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. — Nicole Krauss

Green pine trees, cranes and
turtles ...
You must tell a story of your
hard times
And laugh twice. — John Hersey