Famous Quotes - Tags - Frustration

  • A mother wants all of life to be painless for her child. This is not a realistic goal, however.... More
  • Ah, Governor [Murphy, of New Jersey], don’t try to deceive me as to the sentiment of the dear... More
  • Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. More
  • Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for... More
  • Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. More
  • How can I go on, I cannot. Oh just let me flop down flat on the road like a big fat jelly out of... More
  • I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration... More
  • I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be... More
  • I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,
    I sought it daily for six weeks or so. More
  • If you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you... More
  • Imagination at wit’s end spreads its sad wings. More
  • In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
    That old perplexity an empty purse,
    Or the... More
  • It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid,... More
  • It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission... More
  • It kills me to be time’s eunuch and never to beget. More
  • Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we... More
  • Managing a tantrum involves nothing less than the formation of character. Even the parent’s... More
  • Maybe it just sags
    like a heavy load.

    Or does it explode? More
  • Mechanic,
    you’re trying to make molasses
    but you’re not using the machine
    the way... More
  • Mothers often are too easily intimidated by their children’s negative reactions...When the... More
  • My kingdom for a nightman! More
  • Oh, he’s a sick man, frustrated. Sick in his mind, sick in his soul, if he has one. He hates... More
  • Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission; they must also... More
  • Sheriff, have you ever watched a friend dying before your eyes and not been able to help?... More
  • That’s the whole story of my life: frustration. It’s a chronic disease, and it’s incurable. More
  • The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future... More
  • The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is... More
  • The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. More
  • The world ‘s a bubble, and the life of man
    Less then a span:
    In his conception... More
  • There is ... a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as... More
  • There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must... More
  • There is no “but” in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the... More
  • Those with stomach still to copulate strive in vain. More
  • To achieve the larger goal of teaching her children consideration of others, a mother can... More
  • What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that,... More
  • When parents take their child’s vulnerabilities too seriously, they allow themselves to be... More

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