Disappointing famous quotes
04-17-2025
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What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
-- Alain de Botton -
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
-- Ang Lee -
This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.
-- Anne Lamott -
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
-- Betty Rollin -
In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
-- Biz Stone -
Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.
-- Charlie Day -
That’s my biggest fear – disappointing those people who look up to me.
-- Chris Colfer -
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
-- Chris Ware -
After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.
-- Colin Mochrie -
Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.
-- D. M. Turner -
It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.
-- David Letterman -
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 -
The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.
-- Donnie Wahlberg -
I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.
-- Emily Mortimer -
It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.
-- Eric Bana -
marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.
-- Fred Reinfeld -
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 -
You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.
-- Jamie McKelvie -
But I guess everything in life is a bit disappointing, isn't it?
-- John Stephens -
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
-- John Ortberg -
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.
-- John Podhoretz -
But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.
-- Jussi Adler-Olsen -
I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.
-- Kathy Bates -
I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.
-- Katie Couric -
Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.
-- Kevin Nealon -
I was actually really happy with where my game was at. That's probably the most disappointing aspect.
-- Lleyton Hewitt -
They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.
-- Louise Jameson -
Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
-- Madeleine Peyroux -
The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.
-- Mark Rosenker -
Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.
-- Meg Ryan -
You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory
-- Michael Scott -
Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?
-- Niecy Nash -
If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.
-- Paul David Tripp -
I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.
-- Phil Hartman -
When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.
-- Reba McEntire -
I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.
-- Ryan Reynolds -
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.
-- Sara Shepard -
Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.
-- Steve Coogan -
The lows are disappointing but that makes the highs much sweeterThat's what drives you to compete.
-- Tim Tebow -
At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
-- Wayne Gretzky -
When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.
-- Will Arnett -
I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.
-- Alexis Taylor -
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 -
Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.
-- Joseph McGinty Nichol -
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 -
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 -
The bottom line is this: Miers is a disappointing pick.
-- Ben Shapiro
