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Quotes About Disappointment

Augmented reality is the 'boy who cried wolf' of the post-Internet world - it's long been promised but has rarely been delivered in a satisfying way.
~ Om Malik
At Wolves I just had all the experiences - disappointment and then obviously getting promoted and stuff like that, but then taking it to the next level and getting into Europe as well.
~ Matt Doherty
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
~ Carl Jung
'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.
~ Rick Wakeman
I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
~ Michael Caine
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
~ John Mayer
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
~ Douglas Coupland
Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.
~ Tina Brown
They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.
~ Bill Burr
People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
~ Maisie Williams
Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.
~ Bill Burr
Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging judge.
~ Rodney Crowell
Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.
~ James Fenton
To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.
~ Joel Edgerton
Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.
~ Joyce Meyer
There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.
~ Robert Lepage
I am the most senior actor in 'Devdas,' yet I was not invited to Cannes. I guess these things happen in the industry.
~ Jackie Shroff
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
~ Maria Callas
I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
~ Harold Brodkey
I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
~ Olivia Munn
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
~ Rosa Parks
I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.
~ Paul Kaye
If you're pitching to investors for the first time and expecting them to be so blown away by how thoroughly amazing your pitch is that they write a check on the spot - well, prepare to be disappointed.
~ David Cohen
Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
~ P. J. O'Rourke