Disappointment Quotes - page 12

I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise. (Gary Numan)
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me. View quote
Haley Joel Osment
Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up. View quote
Ilona Andrews
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive. View quote
Jean Alesi
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment. View quote
Joe Queenan
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. View quote
Joseph Barbera
It would be a disappointment for me to take a job, as often happens, having to shoot out-of-town and not where I live. View quote
Joshua Malina
Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life. View quote
Julie Anne Peters
The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous, and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. View quote
James E. Faust
Everyone at home thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to be an actress, and I'm sure they were just trying to protect me from disappointment. View quote
Kerry Condon
My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day. (Kimberly Willis Holt)
Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame. View quote
Kathryn Minshew
I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do. View quote
Bokeem Woodbine
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? View quote
Emma Willard
The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. View quote
Fred G. Gosman
Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances. View quote
Marvin J. Ashton
Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs. View quote
Quentin Blake
When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight. View quote
Robert Winston
Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting. View quote
Rufus Sewell
I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. View quote
Rufus Sewell
When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment. (Ryan Giggs)
And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment. View quote
Randy Moss
I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her. View quote
Saina Nehwal
To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me. View quote
Sonya Walger
I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective! View quote
Spencer Kayden