#disappointment

Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's glutted with tenured old men who won't step aside for the next generation. While the university's busy exploiting you for cheap labor, you somehow have to produce a boring thesis that no one will read, and find someone willing to publish it as a book. And then, if you're unsually talented and extraordinarily lucky, you just might be able to secure a one-year, nonrenewable appointment teaching remedial composition to football players in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the Internet's booming, and the kids we gave C pluses to are waltzing out of college and getting rich on stock options while we bust our asses for a pathetic stipend that doesn't even cover the rent. ↗

— Tom Perrotta

#graduate-school #life #business

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#dream #real #dreams

When people change, I’m disappointed they’re not who I remember them being. And when people don’t change, I’m disappointed they still are who they were. All people do is disappoint, and I do mean all people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#disappointment #memory #people #remember #change

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be. ↗

— Rachel Abbott

#disappointment #marriage #wedding #marriage

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#disillusionment #emotional #faith

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. ↗

— Patricia McCormick

#disappointment #expectations #hope #life #strategy

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#been #behavior #business #business partners #caused

I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#aware #caused #children #deeply #disappointment

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#being #celebrity #disappointments #discover #had

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#contributed #convincing #disappointment #fact #language