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Quotations on Disappointment 51 Quotes Found I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive. 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. I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded. Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us. Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state. I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment. 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. It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully. You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment. 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. Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. 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. The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. 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. 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. I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past. There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear. While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players. Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do. 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. Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable. Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment. Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead. 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. When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action. 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? For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize. If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
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