Quotes About Disappointment

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

Where is the Marco Rubio bump everyone was promised? And it doesn't look very good.

I never made a good movie.

It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're trying to make it look good, but you feel like you're just working on your own.

I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

It always feels good to win, it's always tough to lose.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.