- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disappointment Quotes
Lines on the letdowns that stay with us.
One entry here comes from someone in biotech reflecting on how, despite genuine progress in the field, no single breakthrough has matched earlier hopes. Another looks back at engineering work from decades past, noting how much less reliable the tools once were compared to now. See related lines on the Hope quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you lose a game, there's obviously disappointment, and you want a game straight away.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about football, and sport in general, is that if you suffer a big disappointment, then there is no better feeling than coming back the following year and doing well.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I look back and connect the dots, all I want to do is go back and hug my scared young self, who took a lot of steps out of impulse not knowing what will happen. So many nights of disappointment, so many others of being disillusioned where I would have just gone ahead and quit it all - I still do not know what kept me hanging in there.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that never changes in America is that the white straight male is born with a promise. Women are not promised very much, and we embody our disappointment from the beginning.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my childhood, a heavy cloud of pain and disappointment and insecurity hovered over my home, my little street, my neighborhood, Jewish Jerusalem, Jewish Israel.
- Eternity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020