Quotes About Frustration

The Internal Revenue Code cannot simply be "fixed," which is amply demonstrated by more than 35 years of attempted tax code reform, each round resulting in yet more complexity and unrelenting, page-after-page, mind-numbing verbiage (now exceeding 54,000 pages containing more than 2.8 million words).

It really frosted his donut.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

I thought maybe you were different, but you ended up being the same kind of lame guy that I perpetually date, and it just freaks me out a little. That maybe you're the only type out there. These baby boys who run around in nice clothes, but all they really wanna do is breast-feed for the rest of their days …

this was a thing you keep up on in high school, girls you secretly like but can't get at 'cause they're dating somebody, maybe a friend, and so you file 'em away and hope the guy joins the army and gets sent to laos or something…

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

There's people in hell who want ice water.

I waited with some anxiety, and suddenly, filling out the glass on the other side of the window was Winnie's lovely face. Winnie always dressed up for prison visits, and tried to wear something new and elegant. It was tremendously frustrating not to be able to touch me wife, to speak tenderly to her, to have a private moment together.

A lot of people went through life feeling they'd been ripped off. The money, the good jobs, the beautiful women, the rich husbands, had been snatched away from them, given to the wrong people.

Take my professional word for it: everybody's got ten good reasons to do away with everybody else. It's just nobody knows how.

of anger against the other gender for reasons Anna could never fathom.

Before she'd had to deal with it, complaints about the one- to two-second delay before words said on one end trickled into an ear on the other had struck Anna as frivolous. Not so. She was amazed at how seemingly small a thing could cripple conversation.

everybody's got ten good reasons to do away with everybody else. It's just nobody knows how. Do 'how.

Trying to second-guess lunatics, drunks, or the Office of Personnel Management was an exercise in frustration. The logic totally eluded her.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.

know lots of doctors who think everything would be fine if it weren't for the patients.

The situation worsened when they arrived at Cadiz, because there was nothing for them there.

By mid-afternoon, Villeneuve was forced to abandon any hope of getting his fleet out before dusk.

Mom says it's because she has PMS. Do you even know what that means? "I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome