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«Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.»
«Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.»
Author: Sidney Hook
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
advance, assure, disappoint, doomed, in advance, students, teachers
«Everybody loves you when you're easy. . .Everybody hates when you're a bore. . .Everyone is waiting for your entrance, so don't disappoint them.»
«Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: / From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.»
«Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Anger
| Keywords:
depend upon, disappoint
«Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Expectation
| Keywords:
answers, desires, disappoint, disappoints, expectation, gives, meet, satisfaction, satisfactions, thoroughly, though, yet
«The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most keen, To have it thus most disappoint»
«As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
disappoint, disappointing
«People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.»
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