Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chang-Rae Lee

My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.

Lauren Myracle

God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.

Douglas Adams

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

Abigail Adams

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Bette Davis

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

Anton Corbijn

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

Bill Bryson

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

I think everybody in the grandstand wished me luck. I was glad he was able to uphold his standing and didn't disappoint anybody.

Albert Schweitzer

Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

Jane Austen

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

Jane Austen

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

Jami Attenberg

And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the financial struggle, our egos, I do it too, I do it too, but if you can't remember it is all about the work and nothing else then I can't help you and you can't help yourself and you will lose. I promise you. You will lose.

Albert Brooks

I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.

Clare Short

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

Keenen Wayans

Everybody worked at a level they never worked before and will probably never work again. Our goal was not to disappoint the audience.

Peter Fonda

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

Today we tried to take a lot of pressure off ourselves and pick up those runs. We did a good job of it. Energy was never a question. Everybody was ready to go, we didn't want to disappoint our home crowd.

Robert Burns

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Robert Kiyosaki

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

Dani Shapiro

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Daisaku Ikeda

Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.

Cyril Connolly

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Dan Millman

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

Cornel West

When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease.

Cornel West

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

Conan O'Brien

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Dane Cook

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

David Levithan

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

David Einhorn

Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.