Thwarted Quotes

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.