Quotes About Frustration

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.

I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!

Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.

Might-have-beens are a bitch.

He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.

The emotion she could deal with best was anger.

But when you're already going crazy from confinement, it doesn't matter how much you like somebody, how much you love them, how grateful you are for their kindness to you. They will make you nuts. Everything they do grates on you like a bad song that won't get out of your head.

Being angry isn't always for a reason that makes sense.

By the time they got home, they were both thoroughly bilingual in cursing. *

Verily joined in. "My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Stubborn' just means you don't want to do something somebody else wants you to do, and 'annoying' just means somebody else is frustrated that you won't obey them.

Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument. Bean hated it.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

I felt exasperated by her, always turning, always changing, always making me feel as if I was looking for oxygen--how much like fresh air and how much, at the same time, like drowning.

It is a temporal universal that people never appreciate their own time, especially transportation. Twentieth-Century contemps complained about cancelled flights and gasoline prices, Eighteenth-Century contemps complained about muddy roads and highwaymen. No doubt Professor Peddick's Greeks complained about recalcitrant horses and chariot wheels falling off.

Say you're in the middle of nowhere, nobody for miles and no hope of rescue. You sit down and start playing solitaire and somebody will immediately come along and tell you to play the red eight on the black nine.

There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones.

Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons.

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y

What do you say to em? Say to them? Yeah. Say. Hell, say anything. It doesnt matter, they dont listen. Well you gotta say somethin. What do you say? Try the direct approach. What's that? Well, like this friend of mine. Went up to this girl and said I sure would like to have a little pussy. No shit? What'd she say? She said I would too. Mine's as big as your hat.