Quotes About Disappointment

Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

When I draw something, the incredibly annoying thing is that it doesn't come out like I pictured.

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.

his father's punishments were driven by disappointment, partly in the boy, mostly in himself.

You want who you want in the summer You get who you want that fall But after you've got who you wanted, it's not The one whom you wanted at all

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

There are two terrible things for a man: not to have fulfilled his dream, and to have fulfilled it.

furthermore, after decades of religiously marking homework five nights a week, she now loathed doing it with a venom piles of crap piled up on her study desk produced by mostly semi-literates who made her life hell in the classroom mixed ability classrooms? to think she once approved, it didn't raise standards, it lowered them on this she

when we are open to face the true value of an object or person, we can sometimes be disappointed!

Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen // Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen

The noblest plans are brought down through the low-mindedness of those who are supposed to carry them out.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!

If you allow things like this to ruin your day, pretty soon you'll wake up and your life will be nothing but an endless string of ruined days that stretch as far back as you can remember." She turned toward the window, her profile soft and blurred in the afternoon light. "Believe me, if you let disappointments take you too far, you'll end up getting lost. You'll never find your way out of it.

I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay. Only he wasn't real. Like Austen's characters, he was fiction. Mr. Darcy broke my heart.

That was the trouble with life—it never quite fulfilled its promises.

Another female household-hinter gave me a recipe for a big hearty main dish of elbow macaroni, mint jelly, lima beans, mayonnaise and cheese baked until 'hot and yummy.' Unless my taste buds are paralyzed, this dish could be baked until hell freezes over and it might get hot but never 'yummy.

If you're feeling bad for any reason, going to the mall always makes you feel worse. It's so glarey and noisy. The stores are full of things you think you might like until you get close and see how stupid they are.

Yes, it was and they were furious to find themselves in Rock Springs. Reminded me of the government's broken treaties with the Native tribes. Promise something knowing it's a lie.

I remember playing stickball after school one day. The field was muddy and I was covered with dirt and grime when I came home. I'll never forget the disappointment in my mother's eyes or the stern lecture I received about the image I presented to those outside the race by being so dirty. She said they were always looking for ways to prove we were less polished than they in every way. I never played stickball after school again.

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. I actively seek it out.

Many make the mistake of trying to grow their faith through striving and self-determination. This always leads to disappointment and frustration. It can also lead to presumption, which is counterfeit faith—and devastating. Use the measure of faith you have to discover Him for the sake of knowing Him. Increased faith is the result.