Symbol Technologies is probably the single biggest disappointment I’ve had since I started my show.

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved...

He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn’t in some very significant way a let-down.

While they were dancing, the buoyancy that the champagne had given her left her all at once, and she slumped and felt suddenly tired and miserable about all the things that Denys should have said...

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn’t want to be –...

Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she’d booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren’t any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession’s glutted with tenured...

In hindsight, the grand hero ideal she always thought he encompassed chipped away and all that remained was a cheap imitation. He embodied everything she’d hidden from in her adolescence. Boyfriends, relationships, and sex all...

Love is not healthy when it always feels good, that’s why there’s always pains and disappointments. Love gets better when it is balanced.

The White House has decided not to invite the Irish parties to the White House; that would be a disappointment. But do I interpret this as a movement by this administration away from the peace...

At this time … I don’t have any great news here. Again disappointment. We have not found anything that would bring her home,

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

I thought I was eating a candy bar, but it turned out to be a yummy burrito. I was both disappointed and appointed at the same time.

Though we faced many trails, we do not lose hope. We are living by faith.

I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm’s length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me?...

You know I understand how you feel…. the loneliness that sets in….how empty your heart aches wishing you had someone near….to hold… to kiss and love. That type of passion poets write about…that person your...

Bottom line, this year was obviously a disappointment, … Duplication and inefficiencies inevitably worked their way into our operations and I am working to make sure they are squeezed back out again.

Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no...

I’ll say I love you,Which will lead, of course,to disappointment,but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day’s wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Maybe these whole woods are haunted with crushed girl ghosts and that’s what I’m hearing. They’re coming to check me out, make sure I’m cool. Which I’m not, so they’ll be disappointed.

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they’d had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and...

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

We cannot accept it when disappointment degenerates into violence.

not surprising but a disappointment.

You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’...

Things often have a 50/50 chance of going our way or the other, trust that you will be able to handle the disappointment, change, discomfort and treat it all as an adventure.

What hurts so bad about youth isn’t the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It’s the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half,...

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Greed affects the mind; disappointment makes man depressed.

Everything falls apart when you do one stupid thing

Jeg trodde jeg var skuffet – og jeg tenkte det var fordi jeg hadde lengtet så meget og drømt så meget, at alt jeg ville få se, skulle bli blekt og fattig imot mine drømer....

PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch...

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

These are the three stages of love: trust, doubt and disappointment.

I keep my hope alive.

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child’s emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself...

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people...

Trust me.” The words are a prayer, not a warranty. I understand that now.

I realized at that moment – observing his form move further away without once turning back – that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone...

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will...

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author,...

No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional...

Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming...

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.