Quotes About Disappointment

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put forward in Canada contained not a penny for Mars.

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

If (Mike) Hargrove was his own man, I would have been picked (for the 1998 All-Star team). He is another person who doesn't appreciate what I did for him.

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man.