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Quotes About Frustration

These impossible women! How they do get around us!The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
~ Aristophanes
Blacks, women, immigrants, refugees, brown pelicans—all have cut ahead of you in line. But it's people like you who have made this country great. You feel uneasy. It has to be said: the line cutters irritate you. They are violating rules of fairness. You resent them, and you feel it's right that you do. So do your friends. Fox commentators reflect your feelings, for your deep story is also the Fox News deep story.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
In the undeclared class war, expressed through the weary, aggravating, and ultimately enraging wait for the American Dream, those I came to know developed a visceral hate for the ally of the "enemy" cutters in line—the federal government. They hated other people for needing it. They rejected their own need of it—even to help clean up the pollution in their backyard.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
I was a day late and a dollar short, and every other cliché I could think of.
~ Armand Rosamilia
The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!
~ Arnold Lobel
Oh, drat,' said Toad. 'Not only do my feet hurt, but I have lost one of the buttons on my jacket.
~ Arnold Lobel
Zijn lievelingsvijandin, de vrouw met wie hij zijn oorlog had willen uitvechten, zijn laatste, maar ze vocht niet terug.
~ Arnon Grunberg
Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.
~ Art Rosenbaum
But love is reserved for people, not things; to misplace your love is to invite frustration and futility—to get on the hedonic treadmill and set it to ultra-fast.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.
~ Rhys Ifans
I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
~ LaToya London
I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
~ Brett Hull
I'm actually really bad at puzzles.
~ Kris Marshall
I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.
~ Luther Allison
It is clear I have enough qualities to be in the starting XI of Liverpool. But when you never get a real chance, it's difficult.
~ Ryan Babel
In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.
~ Stacey D'Erasmo
There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.
~ John Grant
I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'
~ Dennis DeYoung
What is frustrating is to have others question my motivation, my ethics, and my history.
~ Louise Linton
'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.
~ Karl Ove Knausgard
There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.
~ Charlotte Gainsbourg
We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.
~ Laurel Clark
Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions.
~ Susan Smith
I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.
~ Arabella Weir