Disappointment Quotes

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
Cate Blanchett

Life, Great, Enough

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
Mary Schmich

Game, Baseball, Blame

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.
Paul Wellstone

Hope, Vote, Action

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
Geezer Butler

Hope, After, Fighting

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
Clare Short

Women, Men, Find

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb

Feeling, Down, Curiosity

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.
Tiger Woods

Hurt, Wife, Children

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.
Jack Levine

Human, Saying, High

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
Laurence Olivier

Love, Time, Today

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Hope, Steps, Tracks

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.
David Rudisha

Sometimes, Makes, Stronger

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
Al Pacino

Great, Expect, Audience

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

Powerful, Father, Tool

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.
Paul Ryan

Politics, Great, Hope

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
Bruno Bettelheim

Love, True, Children

Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns

Worse, Suspense

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.
Frances Wright

Good, Truth, Courage

And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.
Randy Moss

Work, End, Sunday

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
Fred G. Gosman

Future, Children, Shelter

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Euripedes

Life, Happiness, Children

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?
Christian Bale

Done, Challenge, Felt

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell

Children, Parents, Sometimes

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
John Mayer

Dating, Woman, Guilt

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.
Michael Phelps

Happy, Bring, Gold

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
David Ogden Stiers

Power, Kids, Used

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.
Maurice Sendak

Alive, Voice, Hear

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.
Maurice Sendak

Gay, Older, Finding

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
Martin Freeman

Comedy, Endless, Wellspring

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Life, Funny, Real

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
Thomas Frank

Men, Power, Two

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