Quotes About Disappointment

Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

In my years of doing the K1 fights, one thing I've learned is that the guys who you think will be there in the end - very rarely do you get the match up you were hoping for.

I've seen where the NFL guys get all over the 'Madden' creators for their ratings and how they don't look good. One of my buddies plays in the NFL and he was so excited to be in 'Madden,' but then we got the game, and he was a 58.

After 'Honey' I read the rave reviews and thought I had it made. But it was two-and-a-half years before I was on the screen again.

Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.

When I was a kid, I remember thinking, 'When we reach the year 2000, everyone will have jetpacks, and it'll be like 'The Jetsons,' and we'll fly everywhere!'

I'd reached the point at West Brom where I'd play well, score goals, set up goals and nothing would come from it. I'd go home, come back the next day and everything would be the same. No reward, no response.

I wouldn't lie and say it's not disappointing to have reached so many semis and a final and not won the Champions League.

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.

There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.

The process of coming out is normally very disappointing. It's not that people react badly to it - they really don't care.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about it and not offered enough money. The American publisher didn't like it. The Canadian publisher didn't like it... I'd been bleeding readers since my first novel, and I could see my own career going down.

I was at 14 or 15 different clubs when I was younger, and I didn't play that well when I was away. I would readily admit that now, there was a lot of disappointment as a kid.

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

My constituents feel betrayed by the promise that Reagan made, that if we grant amnesty, we'll then secure the border. We obviously didn't do that.

In 2009, I accepted the proposal of Real Madrid, but I was completely destroyed there because I could not give what I had given Milan. I was completely lost.