Quotes About Exasperated

Insufficient adjustment is also a source of tension between exasperated parents and teenagers who enjoy loud music in their room. Le Boeuf and Shafir note that a "well-intentioned child who turns down exceptionally loud music to meet a parent's demand that it be played at a 'reasonable' volume may fail to adjust sufficiently from a high anchor, and may feel that genuine attempts at compromise are being overlooked.

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Jenny Fleming merely looked exasperated. 'That young man,' she said, 'ought to be plucked out of his pride and impaled on a thornbush. He introduced me to someone as the Controller of the King's Beam, last time we met.' Which at least had the merit of making her daughter laugh, if a little wildly.

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

I am quite out of patience with him. Fiona Kincaid set her teacup on the small tray with a decided click. Dougal's been in a horrid temper since he arrived. I like him better this way, Fiona's handsome husband retorted. He barely said a word over breakfast. She gave an exasperated sigh. I'm surprised you two don't get along better, as you're very similar. Jack's flat stare made her add hastily, In some things. In very few things.

I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.

Woman, you're killing me.

Frog it?" he asked. "Rip-it! Rip-it!" She made the motion of pulling the live end of the yarn as she said it, and Cassidy gave an exasperated sigh.

God, I don't know! Quit interrogating me, Peter.

He's giving me that look - sympathetic but also exasperated and mystified, like How is it possible that my sane and reasonable DNA created such a crazy daughter?

His unpunctuality was to be a lifelong trait; even as prime minister he would arrive late or with only minutes to spare for meetings with Cabinets and monarchs and for debates in Parliament. As his exasperated wife was to say, 'Winston always likes to give the train a sporting chance to get away.'47

Exasperated, Dee began, "Molly-" "I'm not hearing you.  I can't hear you.  Can you hear anything, Del?" "Only some whining.  I thought it was a mozzie.  If it keeps going, I'm getting the fly swat and smack it a good one.

Fun?" She said, exasperated. "Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily vigorous," suggested Jack.

Lily was exasperated, but she knew arguing with Caleb would only waste valuable time. It was like having words with a hitching post. They

You're built for the life you're living now. You have a gift for seeing what's wrong with these boys. And besides, you can't fail when you're doing what you love." William was silent, considering this. "Do you not get it?" Arash had said, exasperated. William started to respond, but the older man cut him off: "It doesn't matter if you get it, actually. It's true.

Absurdities exasperated her. At the same time, the slow process of patiently leading recalcitrant thinkers to better thoughts by artful persuasions seemed to her a waste of time--a logical argument, cogently expressed, was surely sufficient to convince, and if it did not convince, then the case might well be hopeless and not worth pursuing.

Oswyl just looked exasperated. This benighted case is the strangest I ever worked on. And I'm going to have to report it all when I get home, you realize? Learned Penric's blue eyes crinkled as he grinned. You'd best pray for eloquence, then.

This is therapy, Ruby." Doctor Z sounded exasperated. "It might be helpful for you to try to articulate something about something.

I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!

You're a magician or some kind of weird, witchy woman. I don't know how you do it. You never lose," he said one night, exasperated after I pummeled him game after game. "You're like Wonder Woman or some backgammon superhero. Hey, I've got it—you're Backgammon Girl.

Je crois que je comprends, lança Andréa avec un soupir exaspéré. Mais ce n'est pas aussi simple que tu sembles le croire. Tu es en train de me demander de commettre un crime... de voler des lettres. – Mais ce sont mes lettres. – Je pense que la loi a un autre point de vue, fit Andréa sévèrement. – Oh... la loi rétorqua Claire, en réglant d'un geste vague le sort des justices française et britannique réunies.

I am sick of meetings; cannot the man turn his head without he have a meeting?

As I was marginally less proficient on a bicycle than I was at particle physics, this involved a lot of swearing and swerving on my part, and a lot of exasperated shouting on his. As

Il citait du latin, tant il était exaspéré.