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The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation. -- Phyllis McGinley
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. -- Barber Conable
We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe. -- Anne Robinson
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body. -- Norman Cousins
What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation. "Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves. -- Gail Carriger
I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed. -- Gustave Flaubert
Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do? -- Cassandra Clare
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital. -- C. L. R. James
Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise. Did that hurt?" Halt asked, and Horace looked at him with exasperation. Of course it did," he said sharply. "That's why I said 'ow! -- John Flanagan
If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you. -- Dorothy Cottrell
I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison. -- Sarah Lacy
Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that! -- Karen Marie Moning
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able. -- Thomas Carlyle
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did. -- Diane Arbus
I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest. -- Mark Twain
Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary. -- Haruki Murakami
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. -- Michael Crichton
ZoÃ« threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often! -- Rick Riordan
Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture. -- Vladimir Nabokov
We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe." -- Anne Robinson
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I turned to Annabeth and shook my head in exasperation. "Always Hercules. What is it with Hercules?" Annabeth shrugged. "He had a great publicist. -- Rick Riordan
Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm. -- Kristin Cashore
Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period. -- Will Self
Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins -- James Rollins
God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot! -- Rick Riordan
My mother was a fastidious and orderly homemaker. I was the messy but creative type. I picture her following behind me through life with a damp rag and an air of exasperation. -- Laurie Graham
You teach combat, I guess." Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. "Why does everyone assume that?" Leo glanced at the massive sword on the fish-guy's back. "Uh, I don't know. -- Rick Riordan

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