People Disappointing Quotes

#1. 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.

Tobias Wolff

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

Kevin Nealon

#3. Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

Helen Fielding

#4. 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.

James Frey

#5. While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.

Seth Shostak

#6. I don't like disappointing people. Some would say that this is "codependent behavior", which I have discovered is a term that explains how most everyone acts all the time, unless one is a sociopath or a Russian computer that plays chess.

Amy Poehler

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

Reba McEntire

#8. Money almost always ends up disappointing.
Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.

Lisa Bedrick

#9. That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

Alan Green

#10. Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

Margaret Heffernan

#11. The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.

Anne Rice

#12. I suppose a good recipe for life would be to allow nothing into it, knowingly at least, which is bitter.

It's disappointing we aren't able to simply spit people out that don't taste well.

Scott Hildreth

#13. I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

Neko Case

#14. I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

Justin Timberlake

#15. Sophisticated people seem to think that "the truth" must always be dark, disappointing, disillusioning. But this is not so at all. Most of the time, darkness, disappointment, and disillusionment are the illusion.
Truth is neutral. Our decisions determine what darkens and what lightens our lives.

Orson Scott Card

#16. You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..

Alma Alexander

#17. Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.

James Dobson

#18. I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.

Alec Berg

#19. You're just scared. You're afraid of what you're unfamiliar with. You're too worried about disappointing people. You stifle your own potential because of what you think others expect of you- because you still follow the rules you've been given.

Tahereh Mafi

#20. How disappointing, when people succumb to what is expected of them.

Lauren Groff

#21. People didn't often change, and the way they most commonly surprised you was by disappointing you.

Claire Kent

#22. Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.

Nicola Yoon

#23. I'm figuring out what I want by trial and error, and maybe that's not the best way, but it's all I've got. All I know is that I need to be my own person, someone shaped by my desire, not fear of disappointing the people who are supposed to love me.

Cora Carmack

#24. They're just grossly overgroomed people. It's a disappointing thing to know.

Matt Wallace

#25. God, real people are so disappointing. I'm sure she would have done it better in the box-set version.

Sophie Kinsella

#26. It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.

Harbhajan Singh

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Rita Ora

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Eric Bana

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

Kevin Bacon

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

John C. Maxwell

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

Demetri Martin

#41. 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

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

Steve Coogan

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.

Mel Gibson

#46. I've seen cookbooks from lots of great chefs that have been disappointing. A book, to me, it has to have a story. Some of these people, they open a restaurant, and one year later, there's a cookbook. There's not much of a story yet.

Wylie Dufresne

#47. I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

Sarah Dessen

#48. People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis ...

Charlotte Mew

#49. It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal ... but I wanted the pace to be honest.

Marla Runyan

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

John Ortberg

#51. Things aren't always what they appear,' he said softly, yet his voice carried a grim authority. 'I've spent my life searching for the ultimate, the best. All that is rare, unique, different, special. And of all I've experienced, people are the most disappointing.

Emma Darcy