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Quotes About Frustration

When proved wrong, he was particularly exasperating; he always managed to suggest that she needn't have bothered to prove it. The point she made was never the relevant point, her arguments conclusive but barren, she was reminded that he had expert knowledge and she none, and that experience would not help her because she could not interpret it.
~ E.M. Forster
He had failed, and that wasn't the saddest: he had seen Alex fail. In a way they were one person. Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.
~ E.M. Forster
But most people live a life of quiet mediocrity and never achieve the success they truly desire because they get impatient. They want easy success or none at all. They see the path to success as a frustration, an impediment. Each day spent short of the ultimate goal is viewed as a time of failure and as an annoyance. As such, they get distracted by hundreds of little things that each day try to get us off our course. Yet the successful among us know the truth:
~ Earl Nightingale
Ba?ka kad?nlar?n çaresizliklerine öfkelenen kad?nlar muhakkak kendi çaresizliklerine öfkeleniyordur.
~ Ece Temelkuran
It's like making a milkshake without the lid on,' wrote a Turkish twitter user, trying to describe the impossibility of having a proper political discussion with ErdoÄŸan supporters.
~ Ece Temelkuran
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
~ Ed Case
I'm gonna put that gun as far up his ass as it'll go, then I'm just gonna keep loadin' and reloadin' till my arms get tired.
~ Ed Gorman
Arousing him, all gods blast it, despite his anger and worry. Arclath shook his head, managing to free his mouth from hers at last. "Dragon take all!" he gasped. "Will
~ Ed Greenwood
Yet as I get older—and my Art fades—I find myself increasingly irked by the small matters, the minor annoyances that once I laughed off or brushed aside.
~ Ed Greenwood
He continued yelling and screaming, calling us scumbags and maggots. He even said, "You are mere pimples on the face of humanity." I thought he was supposed to be glad to see us. What was the issue?
~ Ed Kugler
As I turned to the chapters dedicated to operations in North Vietnam, the ridiculous gave way to the absurd. I couldn't discern whether the enemy was the North Vietnamese or the U.S. Navy. The enemy might just as easily have been the State Department or even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They all seemed to have a voice in the ROE, and the tone of the voice was seldom in favor of winning the war, defeating the enemy, or even ensuring the fighter pilot's chances of survival.
~ Ed Rasimus
You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.
~ Eddie Izzard
In front of him was the bitterness and disappointment in a country that fought them at every turn.
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
I used to think that if I could talk to the spirit world, I'd get some answers. Ha bloody ha. I wish the dead would just come out and say what they mean instead of being so passive-aggressive about the whole thing.
~ Eden Robinson
The need for such cathartic relief derives from the fact that even the best of organizations generate "toxins"—frustrations with the boss, tensions over missed targets, destructive competition with peers, scarce resources, exhaustion from overwork, and so on (Frost, 2003; Goldman, 2008).
~ Edgar H. Schein
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
~ Edgar Saltus
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
The worst part of dealing with his sisters was that they were all so damned smart. Ever since he'd returned to the Parker family headquarters he'd tried to be "helpful" and get the mail himself. But it didn't arrive consistently, and he couldn't be walking out to the street every five minutes all day long. "Oh?" he muttered, allowing himself only a brief glance at the letter before returning
~ Edie Claire
Even if you can not sculpt great foundations, because you have not got that sort of talent, at least carve a child's toy... Start SOMEWHERE. Do not let this desire be simply a frustration that turns into bitterness when it could grow and develop, given some small outlet..
~ Edith Schaeffer
wife punctured this feeble artifice without effort, and carried him off incontinently to whatever of marital purgatory she had hoarded up for him
~ Edmund Crispin
Full little knowest thou that hast not tried,What hell it is, in suing long to bide:To lose good days, that might be better spent;To waste long nights in pensive discontent;To speed today, to be put back tomorrow;To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow.
~ Edmund Spenser
It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
~ Edmund Wilson
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
~ Edmund Wilson