Disappointed Quotes - Page 12

• When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

  Christine Kane

  Dream, Disappointment, People

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• I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

  Bryan Volpenhein

  Bronze Medal, Bronze, Medal

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• God doesn't expect us to perform for him. He loves us always-when we're disappointed or hurt or making a mess of things. Sometimes we speak to him in a language that only he can understand. What matters to him is that we are vulnerable, that we are completely ourselves. We are work, too, but God cherishes us.

  Luci Swindoll

  God, Hurt, What Matters

  Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll (1998). “The Joyful Journey”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic on a doubtful day, they will demand a dogmatic answer as to whether it will be fine or wet, and be disappointed in you when you cannot be sure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Nature, Children, Science

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.379, Psychology Press

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• The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stars, Taken, Sunset

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Years, Ideas, Mysterious

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.255, Vintage

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• I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited. I found what I thought at the time was a very rare seashell. And I took it to a friend of mine who works in a museum. And I was really disappointed. It turned out to be just a human ear.

  David Letterman

  Inspirational, Summer, Beach

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• I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.

  Johnny Depp

  Hate, People, Flash

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• Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  President, Nonsense, Absolutes

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• Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Race, Feelings

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.209, Penguin

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• Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

  Dana Stabenow

  Stories, Facts, Principles

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• You know, when you see yourself on a big screen, I tend to watch from behind my hands. There is absolutely the regret. You always get that at the end of every project. That's what's great about theater: at least every night you get the chance to go out and re-offend. I'm endlessly disappointed, which is what propels me into the next project, probably, not to repair the damage but to kind of hopefully keep developing. Otherwise there's no reason to keep doing it, is there?

  Cate Blanchett

  Regret, Night, Hands

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

  Thomas Hardy

  Children, Views, Games

  Notebook, 1 Jan. 1902

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• I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

  Spencer Tracy

  Fake People, Voice, Personality

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

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• I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

  John Adams

  Family, Children, May

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• If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

  Michael Horton

  Focus, Changed, Testimony

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• I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

  Michael Johnson

  People, Doe, Way

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• I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.

  Eric Davis

  Team, Player, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

  Luke Ford

  Sound And Music, Guy, Special

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• British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

  David Frost

  Pace, Economic, British

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• I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

  Peter Scott

  Korea, Australia, Training

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• Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

  Henry Taylor

  Sweet, Disappointment, Adversity

  Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.59

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• I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

  Jess Walter

  Teaching, Humble, Opportunity

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• There is no reason to be disappointed. India will progress very fast and the skills of our youth will take India ahead.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Skills, Progress

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• Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed."

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Careers, Long

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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