There’s little in life so disappointing as a sunken cake.
I think Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays like New Year’s where people develop such high expectations that even if it’s a decent day, it doesn’t live up, and it’s disappointing.
Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there’s nothing disappointing about it.
As a kid, I’d buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you’d always think ‘Where’s that going to come in?’ And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.
I want to request Modiji that you cannot accomplish nation-building by disappointing the government employees.
To the man who reads ‘Scouting for Boys’ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.
My life is spent in hotels, which tend to be quite disappointing if you’re in them every night.
My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I’ve ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don’t say I can write everything well.
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
And you understand something: that although, like all American eaters, you’ve been conditioned to think of the entree as the climax of the meal, it never is. It is, indeed, almost always disappointing, especially if you order fish.
In my own mind, it is profoundly disappointing to see what has occurred in Iraq given the sacrifice of our troops, given our commitment to removing Saddam Hussein and putting in place a fledgling government that would have a chance for a stable, secure Iraq.
It is disappointing to see cricket being targeted after the Pulwama incident.
A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That’s why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.
I am constantly disappointing people up in Scotland by not being Scottish!
It’s so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.
The process of coming out is normally very disappointing. It’s not that people react badly to it – they really don’t care.
It’s so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they’re always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.
Don’t go telling yourself you’re in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?
The one thing disappointing I had coming out of college was not playing in the Rose Bowl.
It is disappointing to find that music in Malayalam cinema is drifting away from its strong melody-base.
I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing – and annoying to him. But that’s why I like Bob Dylan.
To distract from the president’s disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney’s career as a successful businessman.
My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
Some of the journalists who’ve ended up writing about our band – and this is disappointing to say – have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.
