I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past. – Monica Lewinsky
Don’t fall in love with politicians, they’re all a disappointment. They can’t help it, they just are. – Peggy Noonan
You can’t see fear or lust; you can’t photograph someone’s anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations. – Duane Michals
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. – Eric Hoffer
Most of us women like men, you know; it’s just that we find them a constant disappointment. – Clare Short
I don’t feel a lack of hope. It’s just disappointment that after all these years we’re still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. – Geezer Butler
Brazil doesn’t get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win, and to get second is a big disappointment. – Cesar Cielo
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it’s great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. – Famke Janssen
Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. – Eric Alterman
The one major disappointment I have is that I didn’t get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of. – David Gower
You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it’s finished, is a bit of a disappointment. – Phil Collins
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God. – Monica Johnson
There’s one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It’s inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there. – Geoff Dyer
The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn’t created enough jobs, and it hasn’t produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world. – George Packer
I’ve never been someone that’s had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn’t give you the chance to be flexible. – Eric Bana
For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of their own story as well as actors in a cosmic crusade. For others, a ‘cognitive opening’ to militant Islam was often precipitated by a personal disappointment or loss. – Peter L. Bergen
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. – Mary Wesley
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment. – Pico Iyer
The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views. – Greg Ginn
The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it. – Geoff Dyer
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. – David Ogden Stiers
People from New York have been calling, to see if I’m still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice. – Maurice Sendak
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. – Murray Gell-Mann