Quotes About Disappointment

How did the date go?" "Bad. A text-a-holic...." "Not the good kind of trouble." "There's only one thing to say when this happens." "What's that?" "Next.

Even worse than not being noticed, he decided, was being noticed and found wanting.

Before colonels commanded or astronauts flew, they were nearly forty! They told you all these things you could be, but the truth of it was that when you wanted it you couldn't have it, and when you got it, you were old and boring like everybody else. It quenched ambition

Affairs with unavailable people are a heroin high before nausea hits. Like smack they are destined to disappoint. They begin with magic. Then the chasing after magic. And finally the MOURNING FOR MAGIC.

Não é que eu não tenha fé na humanidade. Deixei foi de acreditar nos homens.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio.

Being very strange kept people away. And if people stayed away, you could never disappoint them.

these days there was little room left in Hal's life for his younger brother, and Charlie felt—what did he feel, deep down, when he allowed himself to be honest? Angry, stinking bloody one-bottle-a-time furious—not with Hal, of course, but with life. It hadn't worked out for him, and he didn't understand why.

By? te? draniem, podst?pnym uwodzicielem, który zostawi j? ze z?amanym sercem.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

institutions that basically sell you an umbrella, only to take it back as soon as it rains.

The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. "The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical," he groaned, "like all the rest of the world.

From a footnote: Writes Clifton Fadiman: "A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

She thinks they're just incompetence. But, then, she thinks that most things that go wrong are just incompetence.

Minimize expectations to avoid being disappointed.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper,

All parents disappoint us eventually.

And let me tell you something about families they're overrated. They're a weakness. The leave you or get taken from you or they disappoint you. Families are a liability.

He once told me he didn't like to meet people he admired because they invariably disappointed in person.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.