Disappointment Quotes

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.