Khalil Gibran Quotes

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

In life, unfortunately, I've had multiple experiences where people that I thought I could depend on have switched up, or I've caught them in lies, and their true colours have shown.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises. Leaders who do this can be manipulative and often hold the goals and aspirations of their followers hostage in order to get them to comply.

When someone says, 'I trusted you,' the phrase is loaded with all the actions that came from that trust: the person comes almost to embody trust, just as anyone who's always hustling can only be called a hustler.

Rafa Benitez promised me a certain development, but very quickly he took away that promise and it was a totally different situation.

My generation feels it has been lied to a great deal.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

The worst is, a friend will invite me over, and she'll say, 'Hey, you've been working so hard. I'll make you dinner. It'll be great.' I'm like, 'That's so sweet! Thank you!' And I'll come over, and she's got hardwood samples laid out! She's using me!

The modern masters promise very little

Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.