Disappointing Quotes - Page 10

• Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

  Alan Rickman

  Teacher, Children, Life Changing

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• Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.

  Janet Evanovich

  Night, Naked, Lasts

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.380, Macmillan

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• t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

  Charles Bukowski

  Stress, Madness, Daily Life

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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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 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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• 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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• It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Fun, People, Addiction

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• Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

  Hilary Duff

  Rain, Waiting, Stories

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• Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

  Seal

  Men, Thinking, Want

  "Seal Interview: I know why Tiger cheated.. but I'd never do that to my Heidi" by Rachel Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. September 19, 2010.

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• Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.

  Barbara Holland

  Spring, Real, Winter

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• One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

  Shawn Ryan

  Running, Stars, Tv Shows

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• 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

  People, Just Saying, Deals

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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

  Tiny, Bigs, Obligation

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• Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

  John Ortberg

  Art, People, Rate

  John Ortberg (2012). “Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus”, p.101, Zondervan

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• If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

  Larry Crabb

  Pain, Real, Struggle

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

  Candace Bushnell

  Men, Feelings, Want

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• We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It’s disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Fire, Media, Expectations

  "7 Feminist Jennifer Lawrence Quotes, Because J. Law's All About Female Empowerment" by Kenya Foy, www.bustle.com. June 3, 2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Attitude, Views

  "Veronika Decides to Die". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1998.

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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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• It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.

  Betty White

  Gratitude, Pain, Mirrors

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.14, Penguin

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