Disappointing Experience Quotes & Sayings

If your flesh is not submitted to you, then it will defeat power, anointing, and talent — Sunday Adelaja

If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future. — Ellen MacArthur

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools. — Jaggi Vasudev

We had started out caring about each other, but in the end none of us knew how to care for each other. But this experience taught me that a community based on the idea that everyone hates rules is, in the end, just as disappointing and oppressive as a community based on the ability to follow rules. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

When you don't act right to your family and friends, that's bad, but they also have the opportunity to experience the 'good' side as well. Disappointing the fans is an entirely different thing because the fans love your music and save up money to see you in concert. — George Jones

In addition to the fear of disappointing people or pushing them away with our stories, we're also afraid that if we tell our stories, the weight of a single experience will collapse upon us. There is a real fear that we can be buried or defined by an experience that, in reality, is only a sliver of who we are. — Brene Brown

Favorite color: I hate colors. — Ian Shoales

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born. — King Solomon

The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group. — Guan Tianlang

Having a purpose is one thing, but the quickening is a total animation of passion. — Bryant McGill

I enjoyed every bit of the evening. I may not drink scotch or smoke a cheroot again, but I shall always cherish the fact that I did those things. The adventure is well worth the disappointing experience. — Sarah MacLean

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure). — John Irving

Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood-for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories. — Graham Greene

The towering genius is not apolitical. — Richard Brookhiser

Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what's not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities. — Christiane Northrup

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across. — Dee Dee Ramone

I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.' — Sandra Bullock

It can't be any worse than whatever it is Annarion's doing."
"You are devoid of an active imagination, which is disappointing considering the experience you have now amassed. — Michelle Sagara

There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free. — Brendan Myers

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly. — Marie De France

He kissed the salty tears from her cheeks, her jaw, her neck. And then he kissed her mouth, slowly at first, tasting her pain and despair. Tasting her desire.
He didn't know whether he turned her in his arms, or whether she shifted herself. He only knew she was astride him, facing him, her long legs wrapped around his hips, and the kissing had gone long past comfort. — Anne Stuart

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially. — Robert Kiyosaki

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all. — Viggo Mortensen