Aggravation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
-- Abu Bakr -
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.
-- Albert Wynn -
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.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.
-- Amy Neftzger -
I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.
-- Armistead Maupin -
Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.
-- Aron Ralston -
So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.
-- Bob Ehrlich -
By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.
-- Bob Menendez -
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
-- Boethius -
Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous, Always misbehaving and mischeivous, Causing aggravation, I'll never pause, Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.
-- Busta Rhymes -
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
-- Cao Cao -
A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.
-- Carl Shapiro -
Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.
-- Charles Rangel -
We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.
-- Charlie Daniels -
I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.
-- Chita Rivera -
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
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.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.
-- Crystal Eastman -
The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress.
-- Curt Weldon -
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
-- Daniel Boone -
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
-- Daniel Yergin -
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.
-- Dave Edmunds -
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
-- Dave Rowntree -
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.
-- Dennis Ritchie -
My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.
-- Don Nickles -
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
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.
-- Dwayne Hickman -
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
-- Eddie Campbell -
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.
-- Elihu Root -
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
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.
-- Ernestine Rose -
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
-- Eugenio Montale -
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.
-- Ewan McGregor -
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
-- Fay Godwin -
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
-- Fay Vincent -
Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
-- Francine Busby -
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
-- Gene Tunney -
It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
-- George P. Shultz -
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
-- George Sand -
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.
-- George Santayana -
I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
-- Gerard Arpey -
Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.
-- Ginny Brown-Waite -
No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.
-- Ginny Brown-Waite -
If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.
-- Grace Napolitano -
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.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
-- Hans Urs von Balthasar -
Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
-- Harold H. Greene -
The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
-- Jacques Delors -
I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
-- Jacques Delors -
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
-- Jacques Lacan -
Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
-- Jane Byrne -
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
-- Jane Rule -
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.
-- Jim Ramstad -
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.
-- Joe Lando -
The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.
-- John Dingell -
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
-- John Mortimer -
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
-- Joseph Addison -
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.
-- Joseph Epstein -
I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
-- Josiah Warren -
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.
-- Joyce Grenfell -
I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.
-- Kamisese Mara -
Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.
-- Kathleen Parker -
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
-- Keith Henson -
The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?
-- Ken Mehlman -
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
-- Kenneth Clarke -
I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
-- Kevin Eubanks -
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
-- Khalil Gibran -
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
-- Lajos Kossuth -
Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.
-- Liane Moriarty -
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
-- Louis Leakey -
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
-- Margaret Cavendish -
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
-- Margaret Sanger -
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
-- Mark Rydell -
But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.
-- Martin Feldstein -
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.
-- Mary Astell -
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
-- Mercedes McCambridge -
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.
-- Michael Beschloss -
The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.
-- Mitch McConnell -
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
-- Moshe Dayan -
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
-- Nathan Deal -
Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.
-- Nina Hagen -
Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?
-- Noel Gallagher -
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
-- Patrick Henry -
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
-- Patrick Macnee -
Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.
-- Paul Gillmor -
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.
-- Paul Sarbanes -
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
-- Penelope Spheeris -
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
-- Penelope Spheeris
