What really frightens and
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Epictetus
Dismay
Life is the game
Life is the game that must be played. Edwin Arlington Robinson
The breaking up of
The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth’s crust … Read more
He that alone would
He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov’d! – How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay’d;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His … Read more
The timid and fearful
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach. Edgar Guest
What I really have
What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world’s fair, and a den of … Read more
What is instinct? It
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. Finley Peter Dunne
To our dismay, users
To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second. Fernando J. Corbato
A thousand for his
A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king’s proximity- How … Read more
God rest you merry,
God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born upon this day, To save us all from Satan’s power When we were gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy! For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born on Christmas Day. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik