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Quotes About Frustration

Much discomposed, Freddy made inarticulate noises.
~ Georgette Heyer
True it is, miss, though I blush to say it! With his own eyes did Totton see him!''He could hardly have seen him with anyone else's eyes!' snapped Miss Trent, her temper fraying.
~ Georgette Heyer
Rot his black soul! fumed Rupert. The devil's in it now and no mistake. A horse, Fletcher, a horse! Horse sir? Burn it, would I want a cow? Horse, man, and quickly!
~ Georgette Heyer
Deriving just as much pleasure as ever from a set of sports and pastimes which seemed to have been chosen by him with a view to causing his family the maximum amount of pain and anxiety.
~ Georgette Heyer
I'll tell you something else too; by the time we're through we shall have had all we can stand of this North woman. I wouldn't mind betting she thinks we have nothing better to do than run around in circles while she gets on with this three-act problem play of hers.
~ Georgette Heyer
God knew she would ask nothing better than to be his wife, but she had sense enough to know that nothing but unhappiness could result from it. If he had loved her, if she had been of his world, approved by his family – but it was useless to speculate on the impossible.
~ Georgette Heyer
you had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!
~ Georgette Heyer
Well of course it did and it would have made any man feel just as I did! I told Mama - perfectly politely! that it was enough to make me jump on the Bristol coach, and ship aboard the first packet bound for America, or anywhere else that Bristol boats sail to,because I would rather live in the Antipodes than have Cordelia hanging around my neck...
~ Georgette Heyer
Why don't you come with me? Why? Where are you going? Home. I've had enough. I hate England. Hate England? It was too much to grasp, with a head full of searing headache.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
Benny let out a moan as everything fell to the floor.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
the woman. "Well, he never came to see us," said Henry. "He
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Is there something else? Well, there is actually. I can't get out of the chair. I'm stuck!
~ Gervase Phinn
I never made it on 'Castle.' I tried a few times, so I don't know, but it never worked out.
~ Alan Tudyk
For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.
~ A. B. Yehoshua
I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
~ Adrienne Shelly
The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.
~ Clairo
The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.
~ Adrianne Palicki
When you stop for months and you come back, you try everything, and I worked so hard to get back but then you do it again and again and again. You disappoint yourself and other people at the club, the manager, everybody. You don't know how to get it right.
~ Mikel Arteta
I was once trying to find a song to fit Nicki Minaj's 'Hey Mama.' But nothing worked out. Sometimes, you can't help it.
~ Vidya Vox
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
~ Theodore Bikel
I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
~ Barack Obama
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.
~ Mortimer Zuckerman
My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
~ Frances O'Grady
There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.
~ Sharan Burrow