Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

The State of Alabama let me down tremendously.

I wrote 'Monster' and thought that it would solve a lot of my problems, that I'd have money in the bank, but I felt no different. I was still searching for something.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.