Best 59 quotes in «disappointing quotes» category

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to you.

You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.

You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.” “It didn’t come up.” “How disappointing for you.” Ha-ha. “That’s not what I meant.

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

We are never disappointed with people we think little of, those who disappoint us are thus by definition of importance to us.

I read it a lot, whenever I find it in a library. Partly because I find new things every time I read it, but also because these BOOKS are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don’t change. My reading of them changes—I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you’ve been before, and it welcomes you back.

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.

It is not good to talk about rude things you have done willingly or mistakenly. We have to forget those things after telling about it to someone virtues. Then we have another chance to correct us. Repeatedly reminding those things will give us lot of bad results. Instead it is better to talk about best things you have done.

There is this book, Destroy All the Cars. It's about how caring about something deeply can also make you hate the world, because the world can be really disappointing. But don't worry-- it's also funny, too. Because that's how you get through all the disappointment, right? You have to find it all funny.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

But O, Photography! as no art is, Faithful and disappointing!

Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

For Democrats, anything less than 15 net pickups will be a disappointing outcome [in presidency race].

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.

I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.

Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.