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Quotes About Frustration

four-seater sporticopter. They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon. "We'll give him five more minutes," said Helmholtz. "If he doesn't turn up by then we'll…" The ringing of the telephone bell interrupted him. He picked up the receiver. "Hullo. Speaking." Then, after a long interval of listening
~ Aldous Huxley
I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.
~ Alec Guinness
Voglio dire che prima o poi smetterà di rompermi i coglioni ovunque io vada, e io proverò lo stesso sollievo che si prova quando in una stanza si spegne il motore del frigorifero, ma anche lo stesso sgomento inevitabile, e la sensazione, che lei certo conoscerà, di non essere sicuri di sapere cosa farsene di quell'improvviso silenzio, e forse di non esserne in fondo all'altezza. Le sembra di aver capito?
~ Alessandro Baricco
Ma quando ti viene quella voglia di piangere pazzesca, che proprio ti strizza tutto, che non la riesci a fermare, allora non c'è verso di spiaccicare una sola parola, ti torna tutto indietro, tutto dentro, ingoiato da quei dannati singhiozzi, naufragato nel silenzio di quelle stupide lacrime. Maledizione. Con tutto quello che uno vorrebbe dire...E invece niente, non esce fuori niente...Si può essere fatti peggio di così?
~ Alessandro Baricco
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
~ Alex Trebek
I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.
~ Alexander Masters
No matter what precautions were taken, socks disappeared into a Bermuda Triangle for socks, a swirling vortex that swallowed one sock at a time, leaving its partner stranded.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Number 1," read Dr Fairbairn. "People making me do things I don't want to do. I hate this. I hate this. Every day I have to do things that other people want me to do and it leaves me no time to do any of the things I want to do. And nobody asks me what I want to do, anyway.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Sometimes the world seemed so unfair: good people were tricked or bullied by bad people, and the bad people seemed to get away with it. If only he could do something about it, he said to himself. But then he thought: What can I possibly do? And the answer, it seemed to him, was: Not much.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Teaching is so demanding, and you get so little support. That pinch will have done Olive no harm - probably a lot of good.' 'Do you really think so?' 'Yes,' said Matthew. But then he went on, rather sadly, 'But I suppose that's not the world we live in, with all these regulations and busybodies about.' He paused. 'I think you've struck a blow for sanity. Or rather, pinched one.' She thought this very funny and laughed. 'I'm rather fed up with teaching anyway,' Elspeth said.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Nobody's listening to me, he thought, story of my life.
~ Alexandra Robbins
Rather than addressing the nurses being spread too thin to provide care that is good enough, they assume the nurses aren't coddling the patients adequately enough." What annoys nurses is that the concept of "patient experience" has morphed patients into customers and nurses into "rank and file" automatons. Some hospital job postings advertise that they are looking for nurses with "good customer service skills" as their
~ Alexandra Robbins
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Pigeon, your wings are no good.
~ Donald Revell
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
~ Donald Robert Perry Marquis
I just have a feeling," Dortmunder said. "This is turning into one of those dreams where you keep running down the same corridor and you never get anywhere.
~ Donald Westlake
These equalizing mechanisms may derive from simple morality, or they may come from the practical understanding that losers, if they are unable to get out of the game of success to the successful, and if they have no hope of winning, could get frustrated enough to destroy the playing field.
~ Donella H. Meadows
and if they have no hope of winning, could get frustrated enough to destroy the playing field.
~ Donella H. Meadows
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
~ Donn Pearce
Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They're a sign of FRUSTRATION. She's only crying so she won't cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.
~ Donna Barr
How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to...
~ Doris Lessing
Black rage shook him. He hadn't had a place to sleep, he hadn't had food, he couldn't even get a beer in this goddamn stinking lousy town. He was ready to turn and walk out when he saw wedged at a table against a wall, McIntyre. In the same silly hat, the red sash. Mac hadn't seen him yet. Mac was watching the dance floor. Sailor knew then that the Sen was here. The Sen and Iris Towers. He took his stance in the room.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
It wasn't because Eva had not tried her best. She had nearly killed herself trying. But she had been like a gifted mathematician set to paint a picture.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher