If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

The worst thing is for a player to come to a club and not be able to play.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Most near-future fictions are boring. It’s always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.