Disappointing Quotes - Page 3

• I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two or three years it was heady. I was discovering that I could do something and do it well. Be useful to people. It was exhilarating, sort of like the first two weeks of being in love with somebody, and then it becomes like the third bite of pizza. The first bite is wonderful. The second bite is not disappointing. The third? Meh. You get used to it.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Teaching, Being In Love, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Donald Trump is going to put his hand on the Bible in five days. And I think it's incredibly disappointing, and I think it's irresponsible for people like himself to question the legitimacy of the next United States president.

  Reince Priebus

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't so politically motivated. I felt that the world from an early age was disappointing. My father taught me about the bomb, and it was eye-opening. From then on, I thought grown-ups needed to do a better job. I still think that.

  Patti Smith

  Jobs, Father, Eye

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.

  Laurence Olivier

  Sports, Sex, Believe

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• I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections to other countries, or to the laws that have been made. They're willfully asking people to forget their country's history, and focus only on the present. It's bizarre.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It's not as easy as that... it's disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.topgear.com

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Order, Holy

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• ["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jobs, Cutting, Cartoon

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

  Biz Stone

  Position

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

  Joseph Kanon

  Thinking, Interesting, House

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• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Nature, Maturity

  Washington Irving (1835). “The Beauties”, p.202

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• For somebody to take a shot at him is totally disappointing and hurtful to my family, my mother, his wife and child. For Dianne to say we turned our back on her or nobody helped her. I paid Randy's bonus in '04. I paid him six months in '05. She got a BMW. I paid her insurance. When you attack my family personally when we've done everything we can, I was very disappointed in Diane and I thought it was uncalled for and inaccurate.

  Rick Hendrick

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

  Eva Longoria

  Taken, Divorce, Thinking

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• Before I had my son, I learned that I had previa and he was breach. When this happened, I felt so out of control. I decided to stay strong and kept doing the poses that help turn the baby. After several disappointing doctor's visits with the same scenario, I realized that I was stuck on my birthing plan.

  Emily Carpenter

  Baby, Stay Strong, Son

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• It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.

  Willie Mason

  Senior, Football, Player

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• 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

  Love You, Past, Visions Of The Future

  Max Lucado (2007). “Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Charlotte Mew

  People, Expectations, Diagnosis

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

  Donald Miller

  Worry, Heaven, Enjoyed

  FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Jan 13, 2014

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• 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.

  Epictetus

  Needs, Vow, Instant

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

  Margaret Heffernan

  Data, People, Leader

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• This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

  Anne Lamott

  Confusing, Body, Messy

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• I think it's really important to champion stories from trans women and trans women of color. That demographic has gone unheard and unsupported for so long, and it's really the community that's struck the hardest by a lot of issues. I try to do a lot of work to champion trans feminine issues and stories, but that said, I do have a personal and deep investment in seeing trans masculine stories reflected in culture. It is a little disappointing to me that trans men and trans masculine people have not really been part of this media movement that we're experiencing right now.

  Rhys Ernst

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual person thinks... too statistical. I find this disappointing because, in my view of the history of psychology, far more was learned, for example, when Jean Piaget spent several years observing the ways that three children developed, or when Sigmund Freud took several years to examine the thinking of a rather small number of patients.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Thinking, Small Numbers

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• It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.

  Michael Chabon

  Years, Together, Males

  "A Woman of Valor". Alure, May 2004.

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