Quotes About Disappointed
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'Tomorrow, success or failure won't matter much: and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
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I was disappointed. Voice analysis can tell a lot about the caller: gender, most of the time, national and regional roots, illnesses, even reasonable morphological deductions can be made about the shape of the nose, mouth and throat. But at least we had a confirmed spelling of the principal's name, which was a plus.
~ Jeffery Deaver
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Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
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Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.
~ Tom Conti
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Now he altered his routine and began to take his walk in the afternoon. If the children were not to be allowed to come to him for religious instruction he must go to them. He knew they played in the gardens and was sure he would find them … but he was disappointed. The children saw him, of course, but they avoided him — as they avoided all grown-ups —
~ D.E. Stevenson
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Now there is a source of future weakness in the idea of power assumed only for a term limited and defined. A Parliament near its end becomes helpless and unable to act. When the period fixed, or supposed to be fixed, is approaching, power will slip away. Disappointed people, men impatient of having to wait, hungry, jealous, reluctant supporters, will gravitate in other directions, will promote rivalry, will speed the parting chief, will magnify the rising sun.
~ Lord Acton
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Not sure. Using it is trickier than most people think, I said. You've got to keep it from drying out, and you've got to get it undiluted. It was raining, so if someone wanted my blood, they'd have had to get to it pretty quick - and it looked like Sith was keeping them busy. Sith? Butters asked. Not what you're thinking, I said. Oh, he said, clearly disappointed.
~ Jim Butcher
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Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.
~ Caitlin Thomas
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As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must go in, it's nigh on ten of the clock.' He half-turned away from me, his jacket collar hiding his expression. Was he angry? Disappointed?" Jo looked intently and I said, "Hungry?" Jo ignored me, but as she passed by acting out walking away from Phil, she allowed her hand to slap against my head.
~ Louise Rennison
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Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.
~ Donna Tartt
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
~ George Carlin
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Even in Ukraine, a country much closer to Moscow's heart, had he wanted to annex the ethnically Russian Donbas region, he could have done that in 2014. Indeed, when Putin made it clear that this was not going to happen, he disappointed and angered many Russian nationalists who had seen him as their champion.
~ Unknown
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Do what your heart - and your instincts - command and you will not be disappointed!
~ Unknown
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I am disappointed. Violette knows how I feel about smart girls turning into needy sex objects for dumb boys.
~ Melina Marchetta
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She was weary and disappointed with all of everything.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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