Quotes About Frustration

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

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

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

Barry Goldwater once said ruefully, and I know how he feels. "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be President . . . except me."

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.