Howard Dean Quotes

Some people will always be disappointed.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

Every time I lose a final, I am disappointed.

This world is always fed up with politicians.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.