Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it’s coming, a common response is, ‚Oh no! Not again!‘

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can’t type. They can’t create documents.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

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.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.