Quotes About Disappointment

He went slowly out of the boat house, unhappy and displeased with himself. He, Hurcule Poirot, had been summoned to prevent a murder and he had not prevented it. It had happened. What was even more humiliating was that he had no real ideas, even now, as to what has actually happened. It was ignominious. And tomorrow, he must return to London, defeated. His ego was seriously deflated. Even his mustache drooped.

Laycock then displayed his particular genius which was that of enthusiastic agreement and subsequent lack of performance.

The next morning we reach the Cilician Gates, and look out over one of the most beautiful views I know. It is like standing on the rim of the world and looking down on the promised land, and one feels much as Moses must have felt. For here, too, there is no entering in. ... The soft, hazy dark blue loveliness is a land one will never reach; the actual towns and villages when one gets there will be only the ordinary everyday world—not this enchanted beauty that beckons you down.

Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

My kidneys were expecting orange juice. Silly kidneys.

marveled at how two souls - two completely different species - could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never did.

I was always being told by him how much of a disappointment I was, both in my appearance—my hair, of course, but also my posture, my weight,

I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

The things we have most longed for do not happen; or if they do, it is never at the time nor under the circumstances when they could have made us happiest.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Chiku felt something very close to vertigo, a dizzy sort of perception that she had only just begun to grasp the vertical depth of a very long life, the sense of how far it plumbed the past. A life that went down like a lift-shaft, each floor containing an ordinary life's worth of love and loss, adventure and disappointment, dreams and ruins, joy and sorrow.

It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.

A.K. Hangal has worked with so many Bollywood personalities. In fact, during his good times he worked with A-listers of the industry and it was so disappointing to see none of them turned up for his funeral.

I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.

Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

I was persuaded to see 'The Muppets' by a friend, and I regretted it. A very boring hour and a half.

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.