Quotes About Frustration

When you sign for a new club, you just want to play, and when injury stops you, it is frustrating.

I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.

I'm a giant person. I can't go and buy women's shoes in a shoe store. I don't even go in the shoe section because it just breaks my heart because the shoes are so beautiful, but they don't fit me.

It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on.

I'm not sitting in my office stroking a white cat... I find it very frustrating: what benefit have I got of closing stores?

Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.

I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things, so it is frustrating, to a degree, to be limited by other people's perceptions of me, but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy, and, you know, it's like I'm rooted in but not bound by.

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

I can't draw a straight line.

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Becoming a musician is a strange thing. It's not all cupcakes and ice cream. You're trying to master an instrument, and you sometimes can't tell if you're getting better. You love it, but you also hate it.

I'm going for Britain's Best Dressed Man award, but strangely, I'm never on the list.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

My dad, as much as I love him, has one of those signs - 'The Isbell's' - on his front door, and he's got the damn apostrophe in there. I haven't strangled him yet.

They were stuck in a traffic queue. There was nowhere they could go. They couldn't help but see the melting man.

One afternoon, disgusted, bravo, you fall asleep.

It was far from good enough for de Valera, Brugha and Stack.

the State that emerged from the civil war frustrated Ireland's imagination. Collins himself might have been similarly frustrated, despite his mighty powers. The sheer strength of the forces massed against him in the North make it very hard to see how his efforts to achieve unity by force could have succeeded.

This is what schizophrenia is: endless despair, endless, inconclusive treatment; endless clutching at little straws of betterness; endless realisation that that is all they are, is all there is.

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

I guarantee there is nothing more depressing than knowing morons have complete power over you.

It was a weird feeling knowing that people were looking to me for help – and frustrating too. You save the damn city a couple times, and suddenly everyone expects miracles from you.

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

some of us are just too damned stupid to save.