Frustrate Quotes

#1. As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

Lou Holtz

#2. The Founders were not democrats and socialists ... , but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue.

David Horowitz

#3. We're going to need each other through this. All of us. But if you can't do that, then I'm going to play hardball. I'm going to do whatever it takes. Some of it will frustrate you, some of it will turn you on, and some of it will hopefully really piss you off

Samantha Young

#4. And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.

Michael Chertoff

#5. It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Baltasar Gracian

#6. That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

Celia Green

#7. There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

Kevin Garnett

#8. I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

Neil Gaiman

#9. When you tell a man how you feel, most of the time he doesn't understand what you're talking about. You'll probably just confuse and frustrate him.

Sherry Argov

#10. Why couldn't she pick a nice, dark, quiet, deserted spot to do her evil machinations in?"
"Because she's an arrogant bitch and her main goal in life is to frustrate you before she kills you," Finn quipped.

Jennifer Estep

#11. When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Ken Follett

#12. No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune ... There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#13. I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play ... if somebody else was playing this character.'

Lena Dunham

#14. Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.

Jeffrey Thomas

#16. As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Harper Lee

#17. What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they're speaking.

Bryan Cranston

#18. I'm in my 30's, and I'm still struggling with defining myself. I'm working every day to take control of things that are out of my control, and not letting them bring me down or frustrate me, to the point of paralysis.

Lauren Iungerich

#19. Watching you two frustrate each other cracks me up," he snorted, putting the car into gear. "Don't do it and I'm guaranteed lots of laughs! How crazy is it: a werewolfrevving high and the human who wants him watches him date her friend!" ~ Max

Shannon Delany

#20. I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.

Jonathan Dee

#21. Prayer never evaporates. It sets into motion forces as inexorable and perhaps as "unhurriable" as a glacier, but when the Lord's arm reaches down, no power in heaven or earth will frustrate him.

Elisabeth Elliot

#22. Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.

Henry Jenkins

#23. Walls were invented simply to frustrate scientists. All walls should be banned.

Jules Verne

#24. It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

Sadao Araki

#25. I wonder if in part why so many people are angry at Microsoft is not just because their products frustrate them so much, but also because this frustration is ignored. The computer makes people feel like they are dummies, when in fact it is the computer that is stupid.

Rosalind Picard

#26. Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.

Rajneesh

#27. Loss adjusters are noble men who frustrate and negate the bland promises of insurance. We act out of the great unbending principles in life: nothing is sure, nothing is certain, nothing is free, nothing is forever. It is a noble calling.

William Boyd

#28. Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

Shane Claiborne

#29. Don't fight with your thoughts or try to suppress them with your will. This will only frustrate you and bind you to your thoughts even more strongly.

Frederick Lenz

#30. The purpose of theology is to safeguard against misunderstandings that frustrate a Christian life of prayer.

Andrew Louth

#31. In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

Larry Evans

#32. We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#33. I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

Hampton Sides

#34. It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.

Harry Mathews

#35. Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Chinua Achebe

#37. The old huntsman was a surprisingly good teacher. He didn't belabor his points, didn't talk down to us, and didn't mind questions. Even Tempi's trouble with the language didn't frustrate him. Even

Patrick Rothfuss

#38. I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

F. Lee Bailey

#39. Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

Kirsten Dunst

#40. Your body is not a tragedy. It is the only one you get, no matter how much it may challenge, confound, frustrate, or thrill you, and fighting your body isn't worth the hurt and the divide.

Lesley Kinzel

#41. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

John Milton

#42. People frustrate us and let us down. Not because we aren't lovable, but because we rely on them to do our job of loving us. We must accept that our lovability and worth doesn't come from others. It comes from within.

Sonia Choquette

#43. God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Euripides

#44. God used my year of waiting not to frustrate me, or abandon me, but to draw me into a closer relationship with Him.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#45. I would so much rather put up with mortars and rockets than headquarters. Mortars and rockets are exciting and can only kill you, but those guys can frustrate and bore you to death, which is a damned sight worse. The home of the useless regulations!!!'[6]

Christopher Robbins

#46. Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy, all those things, and loneliness lived together in the same experience.

Rich Mullins

#47. In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.

Victoria Osteen

#48. My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

Henry James

#49. 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

#50. You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.

Lionel Shriver

#51. Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not!

Jackie Hill

#52. Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.

James Hudson Taylor

#53. The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

Andrew Cuomo

#54. Letters always frustrate me with what's left out.

Eileen Drew

#55. I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage. To thwart the biologist in me, to frustrate the logic left in me.

Jeff VanderMeer

#56. Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day.
Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

Waseem Latif

#57. I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.

George Clooney

#58. Never expect too much from the life ... it will only frustrate or disappoint you.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#59. One of the most difficult things about being a parent is that you have to bear the fact that you have to frustrate your child.

Jennifer Senior

#60. We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.

Solanus Casey

#61. To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#62. Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!

Tyra Banks

#63. Why would Grant password-protect this one file?"
"To frustrate his daughter and her best friend to no end?"
"Good guess, but probably not.

Hilary Duff

#64. Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not.

Melody Beattie

#65. Because no one frustrates me quite as much as you do." Totally true. "Soon, the thought of your face will do it, but now, it seems I need your annoying presence as well.

Kasie West

#66. Identify what frustrates you and find a way to fix it!

Abhishek Ratna