In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.
People are disappointed when the world doesn't end on their watch.
Being disappointed is sometimes an inevitable outcome that no one can control.
We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
Invest in creating the right culture and you won't be disappointed in the results.
Blessings often give rise to injury, so be careful when things are going your way. Success may be achieved after failure, so don't just give up when you've been disappointed.
I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.
Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.
So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.
I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.
I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.
I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.
God is disappointed when we don't realize that others are trying too.
People are disappointed if you're not entertaining and to be entertaining often means to be drunk.
Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.
''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience. . . How terrible.