Failed Expectations Quotes

After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

I am here, a citizen of this country, and I'm saying, 'Hey, the system failed me. I am a good citizen. I contribute to this country, and here I am sharing my story. What are you going to do now?'

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.

At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

In my opinion, Obama can become one of the biggest frustrations in the history for many people, not for me, but for the people of the United States that voted for him and saw him as a symbol of hope for change.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

I went to college, I went pre-med, I thought I was going to be a doctor.

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.

What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Mazhar never wanted me to grow as an individual or as an artist. He always wanted me to be with the kids and be at home. During the very first year of marriage I realised I had made a huge mistake, but I decided to live by it and make it work. I tried to make it work for another 12 years.

As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.