Disappointing Quotes - Page 5

• At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Nhl, The End Of The Day, Lost

  "Game on -- NHL, players make a deal / Parties expected to ratify next week" by Ross McKeon, www.sfgate.com. July 14, 2005.

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• When I dropped out [from a law school], everybody was disappointed... But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. Before that, I never realized how much I sought other people's approval. Once I figured that out, I was free to move on and seek the approval of other people, in comedy clubs and showbiz meetings.

  Demetri Martin

  Moving, School, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Crafts, Film, Lows

  Source: collider.com

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• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

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• unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

  Betty Rollin

  Divorce, Motherhood

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• Many companies are disappointing the citizens of this world by manipulating labor rates, putting horse meat instead of beef out there, or thinking it's totally acceptable to make a T-shirt from a collapsing factory. Increasingly, people don't want to work for these companies, and consumers don't want to buy from them.

  Paul Polman

  Horse, Thinking, People

  "Unilever chief Paul Polman wants to orient company for the long term". Interview with Lillian Cunningham, www.smh.com.au. May 25, 2015.

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• You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing!

  Emma Stone

  Character, Order, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Philosophy, People, Movement

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• Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

  Meg Ryan

  Mother, Mean

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• For Democrats, anything less than 15 net pickups will be a disappointing outcome [in presidency race].

  Mara Liasson

  Race, Outcomes, Democrat

  Source: www.npr.org

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• But I don't think any parent can expect to escape this life without disappointing his child at some point. And the same could be said the other way around. We all of us fall short now and again, and disappoint someone dear to us, or ourselves. Thankfully, my parents have always been the forgiving sort.

  Julie Klassen

  Children, Fall, Thinking

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• I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it seems to me a great film. But whatever pigeon-hole you put Stalker into you would both be increasing the risk of disappointing people and diminishing the film.

  Geoff Dyer

  People, Risk, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Disappointment, Winning

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• It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.

  Sidney Crosby

  Sports, Play, Expectations

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• I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

  Ang Lee

  Drama

  "TalkAsia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2007.

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• I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Virginia, San Francisco

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• Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Sports, Growing

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• It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Strong, Ideas, Growing

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• I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Wonderful Friends, Stories

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• The bottom line is this: Miers is a disappointing pick.

  Ben Shapiro

  Lines, Bottom, Picks

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• The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Firsts, Exit, Polls

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• Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

  Steve Coogan

  Interesting, People, Great People

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

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• There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Children, Book

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• On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the most disappointing dates become meritorious on girls night in.

  Cilla Black

  Girl, Laughter, Night

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• Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

  Garrison Keillor

  Easter, Suffering, Ham

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