Disappointment Quotes

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
Greg Ginn

Business, Number, Seeing

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
Jurgen Habermas

Religion, Today, Political

I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
Gail Devers

Blessed, Long, Nothing

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.
Simon Newcomb

Around, Sense, Clouds

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

Career, Emptiness, Filled

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski

Great, Real, Wish

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
Tom Baker

Success, Time, Failure

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
Susie Orbach

Failure, Hurt, Emotional

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
Jonny Greenwood

Music, Age, Bit

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
Richard Hammond

Time, Failing, Test

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
Anita Desai

Feeling, Book, Write

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
Haley Joel Osment

Dad, Wait, Wanted

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.
Laurence Housman

Art, Failure, Writing

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
Cordell Hull

Great, Gratitude, Done

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.
Ryan Hall

Deal, Took, Honestly

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.
Stockard Channing

Dealing, Hardest, Casting

There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.
Robbie Keane

Far, Getting, Missing

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.
Leonard Boswell

Leadership, Important, After

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Stefan Zweig

Today, Living, Impossible

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.
Terry Gross

Life, Person, Trying

None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.
Edward Whitacre, Jr.

Job, Career, Control

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?
Emma Willard

Education, May, Find

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
Wendell Pierce

Life, Love, Death

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
John Barrow

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
Larisa Oleynik

Hate, Nothing, Valentine

Parents - especially step-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

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.
David Gower

Proud, Against, India

To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.
Sonya Walger

Lost, Happen, Friends

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
Nick Hornby

Football, Matter, State

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.
David Wain

Money, Lost, Find

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