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Quotes About Frustration

La violence est le dernier refuge de l'incompétence.
~ Isaac Asimov
His idiot face gets redder and his eyes bulge and his ears block. I'd say his mind stops functioning, but I lack the proof of any other state from which it might stop." Bronowski
~ Isaac Asimov
Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.
~ Isaac Asimov
Being helpless is one of the things that isn't altogether amusing. - Gilbert
~ Isaac Asimov
And now a hundred subjective years had passed in those hundred objective hours and he could no longer clearly visualize the university at all or the life of sad frustration he had been leading there toward the end.
~ Isaac Asimov
Devers was morosely savage.
~ Isaac Asimov
Violence," came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent.
~ Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge—' '– of the incompetent.
~ Isaac Asimov
Francisco encontró en esos sencillos elementos un profundo sentido estético y decidió que más tarde tomaría algunas fotografías para su colección. Nunca pudo hacerlo
~ Isabel Allende
Le había costado mucho recuperarse del amor frustrado y temía que si oyera su voz por un instante volvería a naufragar en la misma pasión obstinada de antes.
~ Isabel Allende
Estaba harta de contemplar desde abajo los vellos de la nariz del resto de la humanidad.
~ Isabel Allende
A mí me falla el cristianismo a cada rato, Nuria. Será que soy vasco y bruto, como mi padre, que en paz descanse; digo yo que si hubiera nacido en Luxemburgo tal vez no estaría tan indignado.
~ Isabel Allende
all the relatives, for no one could comprehend my frustration at having spent two years scratching the earth to make my fortune with no other goal than that of one day leading this girl to the altar, and death had stolen her away from me.
~ Isabel Allende
Habrían de pasar cuarenta años para aceptar mi condición y comprender que, con el doble de esfuerzo y la mitad de reconocimiento, había logrado lo mismo que a veces consiguen algunos hombres. Hoy no me cambiaría por ninguno, pero en mi juventud las injusticias cotidianas me amargaban la existencia.
~ Isabel Allende
But beyond confusion and rage, the strongest feeling I remember having that night was frustrated desire, because I would never be able to satisfy my need to run my hands over Rosa's body, to penetrate her secrets, to release the green fountain of her hair and plunge into its deepest waters.
~ Isabel Allende
Se sentía agobiado por la imbecilidad de la raza humana.
~ Isabel Allende
You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.
~ Bill Wyman
My biggest 'Spinal Tap' moment was a stupid one as well. When we were rehearsing for the Zeppelin O2 gig, I was having an argument with my drum pedals. I actually took them outside, and drove over them several times with the car. Shouting at them and telling them they'll never work again.
~ Jason Bonham
It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system.
~ Evangeline Lilly
By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.
~ Wade Barrett
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.
~ Matthew Quick
When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie.
~ Patrick Marber
I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
~ George A. Romero
The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
~ Danica Patrick