E. P. Thompson Quotes

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

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

Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

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

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

Going back to coach in Green Bay was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I was approached by the organization, and it turned out to be an enormous mistake. I was extremely disappointed. I disappointed the Packers and their fans.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

Europeans distrust a Europe that overpromises and underdelivers.