Aggravation Quotations | Page 2

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

The climate continues to deteriorate.

My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

But don’t ever let yourself forget that the person you care about fills an emptiness no one else ever has and that while life with them can seriously suck at times, those moments when it doesn’t are worth all the aggravation of falling into the toilet and getting soaked when you’re half asleep.

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.

The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

The real truth that dare not speak itself is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. There may be entities seeking control, but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself. It's like trying to control a dream.

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.