Disappointing Quotes

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.

The more options there are, the easier it is to regret anything at all that is disappointing about the option that you chose.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me.

When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion.

As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

I like writing a lot more than I used to.

I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life.

Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.

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.

Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.

If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography.

It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

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 woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

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

Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped.

He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project - 'There's One In Every Family,' 'Street Life' - I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, 'cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No.

1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing.

I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

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