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• Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

  George Orwell

  Work, Progress, Illusion

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

  Max Frisch

  True Life, Meaning Of Life, Sound

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.

  Harmon Killebrew

  Baseball, Integrity, Games

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• You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

  Mel Brooks

  Disappointment, Essence, Luck

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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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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• Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

  Bernard Baruch

  Disappointment, Freedom, Keeping Promises

  In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

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• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

  Eudora Welty

  Appreciation, Book, Writing

  One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)

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• When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, Grateful, Focus

  "This Mom's Life: Katherine Heigl" by Cortney Pellettieri, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2012.

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• There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

  Cyril Connolly

  God, Atheism, Pessimistic

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• As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Disappointment, Mind, Should

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.248

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• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Independent, Numbers

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• SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Ocean, Musical

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.215, University of Georgia Press

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• But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

  Demetri Martin

  People, Good Things, Found

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. November 29, 2006.

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• 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

  Mean, Kind, Ends

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• That’s my biggest fear – disappointing those people who look up to me.

  Chris Colfer

  People, Looks, Look Up

  "Chris Colfer of `Glee’ writes his Hollywood ticket". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, www.washingtontimes.com. April 27, 2012.

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• 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

  Confused, Threatened

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• Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

  Brené Brown

  Courage, Risk, Boundaries

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• For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Magic, Photographer

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• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.

  Eudora Welty

  Book, Reading, Smell

  One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)

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• The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Loneliness, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Apr 16, 2015

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• It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.

  Zoë Heller

  Nice, Reflection, Doe

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• But O, Photography! as no art is,
  Faithful and disappointing!

  Philip Larkin

  Photography, Art, Faithful

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• For 2,500 years, people have been writing odes. Why? I think that there's something innately human in wanting to praise the world even though it's disappointing in so many ways. There's always that tension.

  Barbara Hamby

  Writing, Thinking, People

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