St. Joseph in 1859 had the bustling appearance of a great fair, with excited travelers preparing to make the plains journey in pra...irie schooners, "rickety old farm wagons," and even small two-wheeled push carts. many bore such mottoes as--"Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady," "I Dare," "For Pike's Peak Ho." Before long many were to return, disappointed in their search for gold, hungry, ragged, and dispirited, their brave wagon boasts changed to "Prodigal Son," "Pike's Hell," "A Fool Is Born."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And midway We meet the disappointed, returning ones, without its... Being able to stop us in the headlong night Toward the nothing of the coast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete; being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and ...tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The rest might wait. The preparations of new carriages and furniture might wait for London and the spring, when her own taste could have fairer play.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fon...d of (as one is fond of oneself)Mto hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, ...etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks... which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand adve...rtising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often si...nce January 12th.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »