Bob Dole Quotes

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

I dug deep, and I found that there were people who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump - because they saw what they believed was going to be hope and change, and under Obama, their particular lives did not change.

I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.