Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

Alan Watts

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

Alan Perlis

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

David Brooks

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy [but] sentiment is not mushy.

Edna Ferber

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

Daniel Goleman

When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.

Ayn Rand

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Ayn Rand

Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Bradley Whitford

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

Benjamin Franklin

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

Brooke Shields

People say, 'I love my wrinkles.' I don't love my wrinkles - come on!

Clark Gable

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Charles Bukowski

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

C. S. Lewis

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

Cher

I'm going to have wrinkles really soon

Charlize Theron

As you get older, you get wrinkles and your boobs sag. But you get wisdom, too. So it's not all bad!

Andrew Mason

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

Alber Elbaz

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

Deb Caletti

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

Black Kettle

Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.

Dominic Monaghan

I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can put them back together again, and why they work that way. The natural world is all around us.

Chuck Norris

As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

David Levithan

The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.

Jason Mraz

Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))

Nicholas Sparks

And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.

Nicholas Sparks

There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I met you, I couldn't remember the last time that I cried. Now, it seems that tears come easily to me...but you have a way of making my sorrows seem worthwhile, of explaining things in a way that lessens my ache. You are a treasure, a gift, and when we're together again, I intend to hold you until my arms are weak and I can do it no longer. My thoughts of you are sometimes the only things that keep me going.

Mary Cassatt

Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together again.