Disappointed Quotes

• It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Thinking, Trying, Heartbreaking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, People, Speech

  Abraham Lincoln, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1970). “Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

  Mary Browne

  Spiritual, People, Trying

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• I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Running, Reality, Ideas

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.390

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• When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Animal, Thinking, People

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• I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

  Zev Yaroslavsky

  Football, Nfl, Disturbed

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• It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

  Bill Paxton

  Expectations, Film

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Sad

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Men, Complaining

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• Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Passion

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• I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

  Paul Weller

  Country, Thinking, People

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• A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

  Julian Barnes

  Dream, Disappointment, Bridges

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

  Theodor Adorno

  Time, Men, Yesterday

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.175, Verso

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• Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Disappointment, Humor

  "A Note on George Carlin about Steroids and Sports from a Practical Idealist" by Carol Smaldino, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Happens

  "'If it's melted, it's ruined'". Interview with Sarah Left, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

  Al Capp

  New York, Husband, Hair

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• They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

  Tony Curtis

  Weekend, Winning, Competition

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).

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• Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

  Steve Wozniak

  Technology, Disk, Hard

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• In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

  George Bancroft

  Nine, Tongue, Slander

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• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Pain, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2015

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• Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Disappointment, Disappointed Love, Greater

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