To Not Make Any Resolutions. Whenever I Make Them, I Wind Up Ultimately Breaking Them. I Think A Lot Of People Are That Way, So I Am Going To Try And Avoid Inevitable Disappointment Next Year And Just Not Make Any.
If You Don't Encounter Setbacks In Your Career, If You Don't Have Doubts And Disappointments , Let Me Tell You, You're Not Dreaming Big Enough.
If I Had My Way, If I Was Lucky Enough, If I Could Be On The Brink My Entire Life - That Great Sense Of Expectation And Excitement Without The Disappointment - That Would Be The Perfect State.
For A While, I Thought The Great Disappointment Of My Life Was That I Don't Have A Family Of My Own. Then It Dawned On Me: That's Not What I Think; That's What Married People Think.
The New Millennium Sucks! What A Disappointment! What's The Difference Between The Old Millennium And The New Millennium? Nothing! It's The Same Load Of Crap With A '2' In The Front. When I Was A Kid, I Am Old Enough So That When I Was A Kid, I Looked Forward To The New Millennium. When I Was Young, I Said, 'i'm Gonna Live Through A Change! A Massive Change! Things Are Gonna Be Different! Things Are Gonna Be Great!' Screwed Again! No Flying Cars! No Flying Cars!
We Are All The Heroes And Heroines Of Our Own Lives. Our Love Stories Are Amazingly Romantic; Our Losses And Betrayals And Disappointments Are Gigantic In Our Own Minds.
Opportunity: A Favorable Occasion For Grasping A Disappointment.
Outcome, N. A Particular Type Of Disappointment . . . . Judged By The Outcome, The Result. This Is Immortal Nonsense; The Wisdom Of An Act Is To Be Juded By The Light That The Doer Had When He Performed It.
Past, N. That Part Of Eternity With Some Small Fraction Of Which We Have A Slight And Regrettable Acquaintance. A Moving Line Called The Present Parts It From An Imaginary Period Known As The Future. These Two Grand Divisions Of Eternity, Of Which The One Is Continually Effacing The Other, Are Entirely Unlike. The One Is Dark With Sorrow And Disappointment, The Other Bright With Prosperity And Joy.... Yet The Past Is The Future Of Yesterday, The Future Is The Past Of To-morrow. They Are One-the Knowledge And The Dream.
Present, N. That Part Of Eternity Dividing The Domain Of Disappointment From The Realm Of Hope.
