Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Tannen

If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.

Eddie Vedder

You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.

Bernie Sanders

The basic issue of an American society which is fair, which is providing opportunity for all, is nowadays being replaced by the correct perception that we're living in a rigged economy - where it doesn't matter how hard you worked, the result will be all the income goes to the people at the very top. It's leading to a lot of frustration and anger, and people want some fundamental changes to the way we do economics and growth.

Ann Landers

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

Ann Brashares

She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination.

Alexander Haig

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Adolf Galland

It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.

E. O. Wilson

Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

Anchee Min

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world.

Richard P. Feynman

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Richard Dawkins

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

Willard Gaylin

Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

Vivienne Westwood

The most erotic zone is the imagination.

Virginia Woolf

Women alone stir my imagination ...

William Blake

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

Kevin Constantine

We took the least 20 banged up guys and put them on the ice. I don't really have any feelings about it at all. We needed to rest some guys and that's what we did.

Rob Brown

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

Rebecca West

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

Umberto Eco

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Woody Allen

I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.

William Wordsworth

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

William J. Clinton

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Robert Duvall

I like the good feeling movies.