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Quotes About Frustration

I hate how old people get in my way when I'm swimming. You're trying to get into the zone and normally, if there's someone faster than you, you get out of the way, but old people don't; they're like, you can go round me. I give a little tut when I pass them.
~ Sara Pascoe
I went into a club who were sitting dead last in League Two, then I got them out of the relegation zone within 10 games, only to then get the sack... I don't get it.
~ Harry Kewell
I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me feel like we're about three per cent better than ants. Especially U.S. airports. They're zoos. All civility is gone.
~ Douglas Coupland
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose man enjoyment is winning.
~ Chuck Noll
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
~ Alan Watts
An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.
~ Alva Johnston
The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.
~ Swahili proverb
Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.
~ Anonymous
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Boredom turns a man to sex, a woman to shopping, and it drives newscasters berserk.
~ Bruce Herschensohn
Boredom is rage spread thin.
~ Paul Tillich
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
~ William Shakespeare
Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
~ Igor Stravinsky
As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you're all dressed up and no place to go.
~ Benjamin Hapgood Burt
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom.
~ Antoine de SaintExupery
My God, this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
~ Warren G. Harding
Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
~ Irene Kassorla
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
~ Don Marquis
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
~ Helen Merrell Lynd
My husband lost a lot of weight on a new diet, and I resent it. It's simple, he just doesn't eat when I'm talking.
~ Wendy Morgan
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
~ Baroness Edith Summerskill
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
~ Anais Nin
Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
~ Abraham Maslow