Disappointing Quotes - Page 9

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

  Eric Bana

  People

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

  Kathy Bates

  Three, Looks, Fats

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• I would love to have the biggest band that I can have. I'd love to put on a massive show and just give people their money's worth, then just come away from it thinking, 'That was a good show', because it's kind of disappointing sometimes when you go and see someone and you can see they're not that bothered.

  Katy B

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Strong, Party, Two

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• 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

  Actors, Done, Shooting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

  Philip Larkin

  Photography, Art, Faithful

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

  David Letterman

  Jerk, Admire

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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• 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

  Somewhere Else, President, Blame

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• She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.

  Ai Yazawa

  Dirty, Angel, World

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• After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Son, Two, Suitcases

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.99, Penguin

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• You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.” “It didn’t come up.” “How disappointing for you.” Ha-ha. “That’s not what I meant.

  Ilona Andrews

  Your Best Friend, Come Up, Magic Bleeds

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• Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

  Keith Ablow

  Mother, Children, Father

  Keith Ablow (2015). “Compulsion”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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• Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Expectations, Want

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• It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

  Emily Giffin

  Falling In Love, Worst, Fall

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• I enjoyed every bit of the evening. I may not drink scotch or smoke a cheroot again, but I shall always cherish the fact that I did those things. The adventure is well worth the disappointing experience.

  Sarah MacLean

  Adventure, Scotch, May

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• With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

  S.J. Watson

  Balance, Tests, Affection

  S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.351, Random House

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• The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Memories, Reality

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.437, Broadway Books

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• you are on the freeway threading through traffic now, moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will somehow get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so delightful and so disappointing because we are all so alike and so different.

  Charles Bukowski

  Moving, Different, Dull Days

  Charles Bukowski, “Gamblers All”

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• The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

  John Malkovich

  Football, Games, Play

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didn’t sing it for a while. That’s completely false. I am very proud of ‘American Pie’ and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung ‘American Pie’ for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.

  Don McLean

  Song, Thinking, Hands

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• As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Believe, Kids

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.110, Broadway Books

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• Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

  D. W. Griffith

  War, Drama, World

  c.1915 Comment on World War I. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984).

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• Living your problems and loving them like locked rooms is much different from denying them or capitulating to them. It is believing that God is with you in the imperfect, even disappointing circumstances of your life. It is saying to Him with faith in your heart.

  Steven Furtick

  Believe, Heart, Different

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.198, Multnomah

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• As a consumer, if I heard someone who said, "I've written this song," and then I found out it wasn't by them, it's a bit disappointing. A lot of the guys that do that are really talented and they've made some incredible music, but they get addicted to having success and feel too much pressure, so they get other people to make sure that their next song makes money.

  Howard Lawrence

  Song, People, Guy

  "Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Disclosure Break Down Every Song on Their New LP". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2015.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Pet

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