Disappointing Quotes

#1. Being more aware will enable you to have only astonishing impressions, avoiding any of the disappointing experiences like some of those we went through.

Sahara Sanders

#2. Well, this was disappointing. I supposed I had jumped to a rather large conclusion, with the help of my research. It just went to show that Wikipedia was a liar and Google a whore.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

George Orwell

#4. You disappoint me, Arianne.
Said the crow to the raven. You have been disappointing me for years, Father.

George R R Martin

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

Demetri Martin

#6. It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the universe. (Not even remotely.) - MEME

Darynda Jones

#7. 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.

Emily Mortimer

#8. To be a husband or wife, to be a parent, is inevitably to be aware of so many disappointing, exasperating things about your mate or child, but at the same time to see those people in depth, to see them with both eyes, and to be reminded of why you still love them.

Harold S. Kushner

#9. Vengeance is disappointing, always.

Janet Morris

#10. promising!) was oddly disappointing, but what happened

Robin Stevens

#11. That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think ... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.

Emmett Shear

#12. She obviously had disappointing news in her teens and wasn't yet recovered.

Ken Bruen

#13. Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals.

Bradford Winters

#14. 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.

Joni Mitchell

#15. It is quite disappointing that people you love the most don't love what you love the most. They don't know you. Don't apologise for your dreams.

Enock Maregesi

#16. You mean she doesn't intend to blow me up before the ceremony?" said Kai,taking the box."How disappointing.

Marissa Meyer

#17. God isn't as important to people now," my mother said one day after a particularly disappointing turnout. "A day will come when they'll be sorry for that.

Stephen King

#18. Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and personal satisfaction. The results are frequently disappointing, and always terminate in the embarrassing non sequitur of death.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#19. Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be.

Peter F. Hamilton

#20. I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

Rita Ora

#21. If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.

Paul David Tripp

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

Bernard M. Baruch

#23. You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.

Mirah

#24. Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.

Elena Ferrante

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

Courtney Love

#26. It was a little disappointing, really. As an inventor he could at least have had a hunchback assistant, or perhaps a metal one.

Kady Cross

#27. The type of person who will always be your friend, for as long as you can stand to keep disappointing her.

Dan Chaon

#28. I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

Jennifer Niven

#29. To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

Epictetus

#30. As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't.

Tiffany Madison

#31. Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

Chris Hadfield

#32. What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Alain De Botton

#33. Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

Wendy E. Long

#34. That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

Peter Dinklage

#35. What philosophers say about actuality [Virkelighed] is often just as disappointing as it is when one reads on a sign in a secondhand shop: Pressing Done Here. If a person were to bring his clothes to be pressed, he would be duped, for the sign is merely for sale.

Soren Kierkegaard

#36. The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.

Hugh S. Johnson

#37. The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

Jeannette Rankin

#38. I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food is disappointing, but it doesn't matter when the company is good...[T]here's a lot to be said for eating as a social act. It's a treat, even when the food is bad.

Lucy Knisley

#39. On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the most disappointing dates become meritorious on girls night in.

Cilla Black

#40. I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food.

Kal Penn

#41. At its root, perfectionism isn't really about a deep love of being meticulous. It's about fear. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of disappointing others. Fear of failure. Fear of success.

Michael Law

#42. When people in organizations focus only on their position, they have little sense of responsibility for the results produced when all positions interact. Moreover, when results are disappointing, it can be very difficult to know why. All you can do is assume that someone screwed up.

Peter M. Senge

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

Max Frisch

#44. The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

Tony Greig

#45. It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

Anthony Kiedis

#46. Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.

Philip Kerr

#47. You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

Paulo Coelho

#48. The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.

Mark Rosenker

#49. There was nothing in store at Undershaw for his lordship but a set-down, but it was disappointing to be granted no opportunity to deliver this.

Georgette Heyer

#50. When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.

Michele Bachmann

#51. Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Marcel Proust

#52. It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

Eric Bana

#53. I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

Sherman Alexie

#54. Howard Dean came in a disappointing third place. Afterwards Dean said 'Iowa is behind me and now I look forward to screaming at voters in New Hampshire.'

Conan O'Brien

#55. I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

Mira Gonzalez

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

Kathy Bates

#57. I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.

Bill Plympton

#58. Find out how Claude and Kelly end up from being Friends 2 Lovers as you follow them through their disappointing, confusing, loving, shocking,encouraging, and romantic moments. But can their bond last and withstand all the challenges that cross their way?

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#59. 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.

Anne Lamott

#60. Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

Kevin Bacon

#61. But I guess everything in life is a bit disappointing, isn't it?

John Stephens

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

Alexis Taylor

#63. 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.

John Sexton

#64. I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.

Billy Collins

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

John C. Maxwell

#66. It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

Janine Di Giovanni

#67. 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

Carly Fiorina

#68. 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.

Sam Shepard

#69. They burn books now, mama.The monsters burn fucking books now, mama. They have eyes full of disappointing madness. Their tongues taste like fulvous indoctrination. They teach us. Teach us sadism, hatred, lust to kill, conformity. What do you see when you look at me? Daddy?

Laura Gentile

#70. There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

Daniel Tammet

#71. 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.

Kevin Keegan

#72. Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

Betty Rollin

#73. I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

Joseph Kanon

#74. You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing!

Emma Stone

#75. It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

Salman Rushdie

#76. An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Josh Radnor

#77. We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It's disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire.

Jennifer Lawrence

#78. Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.

D. M. Turner

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

Steve Coogan

#80. SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

Ambrose Bierce

#81. Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the future. He can show you the chapter in which you will. With perfect knowledge of the past and perfect vision of the future, He loves you perfectly in spite of both.

Max Lucado

#82. I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world

Natalie Portman

#83. I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

Illeana Douglas

#84. Marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#85. 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.

Robert Baden-Powell

#86. I munched a carrot, then broke off a piece of bread and teamed it with another bite of salmon. Every single bit could be a different taste sensation.
It was like men. Each was unique. Most had some great qualities, the majority had a few disappointing ones, and a few were total losers.

Susan Fox

#87. I am sorry, as well, to present such a sketchy and disappointing exegesis of what is in fact the central part of my story.

Donna Tartt

#88. Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.

James Fenton

#89. Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

Seal

#90. I want a partner in crime and a Bonnie to my Clyde. I've just been so focused on my career. Women don't like being number two, so I've been glad to keep my distance so I could focus on me, get my life together and take care of my mom without disappointing the woman I love.

Shemar Moore

#91. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everybody he loved.

Cassandra Clare

#92. There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

Sandra Bernhard

#93. I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

Ryan Reynolds

#94. There is nothing more disappointing than the coolest kid in the whole world turning drama queen on you.

A.S. King

#95. 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.

Sara Shepard

#96. If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

Larry Crabb

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

Philip Larkin

#98. She thinks of him lying there, the beautiful moment never arriving, never ruined, never disappointing, over. It must be sublime dwelling in that house of longing, forever poised on desire's trembling tip, before everything is wrecked.

Susan Johnson

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

Katie Couric

#100. With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.

James MacDonald