Grant Bowler Quotes

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.

There's nothing worse than breaking a promise to someone who cares about you.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

You have to do disappointment twice.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.