Quotes About Disappointment

My fear is of the message we put out to millions of voters is that if change is not initiated through the ballot box, then they may regard disappointment in that as a trigger to initiate other methods of change.

It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

I'm a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

I can't imagine anyone thinking, 'Oh good, it's awards season!'

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.

I think they've been baby bummers.

I'd love my degree from university, because I'm one subject away from having a Bachelor of Arts, which I know I can't use, but it annoys me.

You know when you've had a bad game.

It's hard to have money in the bank and want something and then not get it.

Whenever you lose, it's always bad, and especially against Barcelona.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

You don't want a guy to be happy he's not starting.

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

If, as Bayern, you lose 2-0 at Hertha, nobody believes you that you can still be satisfied with the performance.

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

Life will never be what we want it to be, and the best we can do, in the end, is to endure, seeking love in a fallen world that's destined to disappoint us.

She chuckled to herself, pressed send, and wandered around the airport for half an hour, sporadically checking Twitter. "I got nothing," she told me. "No replies." I imagined her feeling a bit deflated about this—that sad feeling when nobody congratulates you for being funny, that black silence when the Internet doesn't talk back.

Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

A wish is a dream come true. Since dreams are never clear, they invariably disappoint.

Billy might have known it for several months by now, and I might only just have begun to grasp it, but we had both come to the same realization: the realization that what we had to give, nobody really wanted any more

Benjamin had not dared, yet, to enquire about sales figures; as for the book's critical reception, it was non-existent. No reviews in either the national or local papers, of course, nothing on the various readers' websites and no reader reviews on Amazon - where it had a sales raking of 743,926 (or, if he wanted to cheer himself up, 493 in Bestsellers>Fiction>Literary Fiction>Autobiographical Fiction>Romance>Obsession).