Quotes of Frustrated - somelinesforyou

“ If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated. ”

- Frank F. Warren

“ It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated. ”

- William Rehnquist

“ If there wasn't such a thing as football we'd all be frustrated footballers. ”

- Mick Lyons

“ I was a very frustrated, lonely and anti-social young man. I felt very alienated and very bored as well. ”

- Brian Molko

“ By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. ”

- John Dewey

“ The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mortal male would smack her little mouth, so smooth, so firm, so free of nicotine, alcohol and emotion. ”

- James Thurber

“ I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body. ”

- David Wenham

“ A male gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes. ”

- Newt Gingrich

“ He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. ”

- Simon Cowell

“ You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. ”

- Charles C. Noble

“ When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems. ”

- Suzanne Massie

“ The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love. ”

- Franz Werfel

“ I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me. ”

- Paul Little

“ I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. ”

- A. Whitney Brown

“ Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works. ”

- John N. Mitchell

“ Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want. ”

- Irving Kristol

“ I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be often upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, no matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better then anticipated. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, How do you know what the future is going to be like? And I'd always say, I don't. ”

- William Gibson

“ I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does? ”

- Amy Grant

“ I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together. ”

- John McCain

“ You know, people get frustrated because their loved ones who have Alzheimer's, oh, he doesn't recognize me anymore, how can I recognize this person, if they don't recognize me? They're not the same person. Well, they are the same person, but they've got a brain disease… ”

- Ron Reagan

“ Obscenities… I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ Hate starts as an anger that doesn't get resolved. Then it becomes a resentment, and then a true hatred that can go on indefinitely…hatred causes serious damage over time. Haters can't let go or get on with life. They become bitter and frustrated… ”

- Ron Potter Efron and Pat Potter Efron

“ No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arise, we choose to be powerful or powerless. It may not always feel like it, but it is a choice. And there are consequences for these choices in terms of the results we get, and the subsequent increase or decrease in our power and influence… ”

- Blaine Lee

“ Ain't no matter which way that the election goes, you should always be prepared. You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations… ”

- Chuck D.

“ As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person. ”

- Tucker Carlson

“ Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct… ”

- Alec Baldwin

“ What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before? To call such activity progress is utter delusion… ”

- Henry Miller

“ Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times. ”

- John Stuart Mill
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