Quotes About Disappointment

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld, open sesame! Yeah, that didn't work, either.

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don't work out.

I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

In football, if you have a big break after a disappointment you can stew on things, and that hurts you.

We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all.