Disappointing Quotes - Page 6

• For Democrats, anything less than 15 net pickups will be a disappointing outcome [in presidency race].

  Mara Liasson

  Race, Outcomes, Democrat

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Biz Stone

  Position

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• To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

  Kingsley Amis

  Struggle, Writing, Risk

  Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow

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• As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There will be moments when the one you counted on most walks away and leaves you groping through blinding tears and wailing questions of why. Plans and goals can be circumvented by the most disappointing of times, leaving you learning the art of patience and the acceptance of a denied request.

  T. D. Jakes

  Art, Acceptance, Goal

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• Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.

  Ricky Ponting

  Years, Calendars, Lasts

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• Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Writing, Reality, Useless

  Michel Houellebecq (2005). “H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life”, McSweeney's

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• The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.

  Joe Meno

  Book, Writing, Opportunity

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• I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Home, Self, Mind

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• 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

  Disappointment, Mean, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.136, Penguin

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• We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

  Irvine Welsh

  Real, Careers, Ideas

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• After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.

  James Berardinelli

  Should Have, Office, Guy

  "Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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

  Mark Rosenker

  Hopeful, Increase, Decrease

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• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

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

  Kevin Nealon

  People, Knack, Pleasers

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• Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Rights, Democracy, Election

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

  Kevin Bacon

  People, Pay, Bills

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• On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.

  Conan O'Brien

  Presidential, Election, Yeah

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• Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.

  Gene Weingarten

  Inspiration, Creativity, Eye

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants that. And yet, that's what it is. Maybe it's a kind of surrealist move, to use language like "post-racial" - thinking that if you create the language for it, it will happen. I wish it worked that way. But that's not our reality.

  Claudia Rankine

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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

  Community, World, Born

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Musician

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• Often, I think that my brothers were the reason I didn't do something really stupid in my teenage years; I didn't want to disappoint them. Even though was I was pretty committed to disappointing everybody else.

  Leigh Newman

  Brother, Teenage, Stupid

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's always disappointing when you find a good story and you realize the person has died, because then it's difficult to report.

  Joshuah Bearman

  Stories, Realizing, Difficult

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

  Gillian Anderson

  Character, Different, Feels

  "The year of Gillian Anderson". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 21, 2016.

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