Finite Disappointment Quotes & Sayings

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes. — William, Saroyan

You can stump any stoner with one question: What were we just talking about? — Jim Breuer

I realized," he said, "that they were building a system whose goal was the elimination of all privacy, globally. To make it so that no one could communicate electronically without the NSA being able to collect, store, and analyze the communication. — Glenn Greenwald

I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization. — Joe Torre

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. — Martin Luther King Jr.

And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them. — Jack London

Perhaps so many journals had piled up in the lighthouse because on some level most came, in time, to recognize the futility of language. Not just in Area X but against the rightness of the lived-in moment, the instant of touch, of connection for which words were such a sorrowful disappointment, so inadequate an expression of both the finite and the infinite. — Jeff VanderMeer

Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it. — Holly Black

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity. — Ivan Pavlov

During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts. — Vivek Wadhwa