Quotes About Frustration

Despite the ebb and flow of our feelings, we can control the way we act. Patience, for instance, is not a feeling. Patience is the description of a behavior. One can choose to act patiently even while the feeling of frustration tempts him to choose inappropriate behavior. It is impossible to feel frustrated and feel patient at the same time, but one can be inundated with feelings of frustration and still display patience. Patience is a discipline. It is an action. Patience is a chosen response.

The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.

The great Powers of the world today as they look at the armaments they have built up, find themselves hopelessly frustrated. If that be the case, what is the use of speaking about first-class, second-class and third-class Powers? That is surely the wrong language to use. It does not comply with contemporary reality. What we have to seek is new ways of being great, new modes of pioneering, new fashions of thought, new means of inspiring and igniting the minds of mankind. We can do so.

Lo peor que tiene la tristeza es que es ciega; y lo peor que tiene la cólera es que ve demasiado.

Lo peor de la tristeza es que ciega y lo peor de la cólera es que ve demasiado.

How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind.

Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers....

Regarding check-cashing places): It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.

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.

Imagine having a similar conversation with yourself. "I can't get my eating under control. It's aggravating to me that I can't resist tempting foods." These thoughts are filled with self-doubt and diminish our hopes about making a change. A more helpful thought would be, "I'm feeling frustrated with my struggle to resist tempting foods, yet I can work on ways to overcome this challenge.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

She says if she surrounded herself with work by mediocre artists all day she'd slit her wrist with frustration. What do you mean? I find it inspiring. When was the last time you saw a Latina artist in a gallery? I never thought about it like that.

You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.

You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel.

Don't keep saying 'huh', Silas. It makes you sound so crotchety." "Well, maybe I am crotchety. And I'll keep saying 'huh' if I want to, Sarah. Huh.

Alice was nettled.

Not to mention the fact that it was making horrible dents in her best Chinese carpet.

bloodroot (sense 1) early 17th century: from Algonquian poughkone. puce adj. of a dark red or purple-brown colour: his face was puce with rage and frustration. n. [mass noun] a dark red or purple-brown colour. late 18th

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

Strangely my husband had more in common with my parents than I had; all were on a lifelong mission to deny the truth, the truth being that they were furiously disappointed.

All the deaths were natural, yet all had an aura of horror. It was their lives rather than their deaths that were regrettable, and all the frustrated love that had failed to sweeten their end.

I link all evils to the computer.

Angela yelled. Realizing she was dangerously out of control—in the last couple of hours, she'd begun to understand why gerbil parents sometimes ate their young—she

Kate looked up at her, hollowed-eyed. She wouldn't be use to failure) No. He tried to fix it himself. He self-medicated with drink.