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Disappointment Quotes
"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one."
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"I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it."
10
"I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment."
8
"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
8
"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments."
7
"The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them."
7
"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."
7
"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."
5
"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."
5
"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."
5
"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
4
"When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band."
4
"Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous."
4
"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."
4
"All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile."
4
"Disappointment is the end of an illusion."
3
"I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role."
3
"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."
3
"You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then suddenly, the quest was over. I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down.Does that make sense? I had been sure that as soon as I had everything back I'd feel good. But inside I felt worse than when I stared."
3
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
3
"What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary."
2
"Can't even feel dissapointed when seeingheaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected."
2
"The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I'm going to be disappointed."
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