Aggravation Quotes - Page 11

• In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

  Ralph Regula

  Years, Land, Parks

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• One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Priorities, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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• Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

  Luc Montagnier

  School, Too Late, Our Society

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• The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.

  George Stevens

  Degradation, Remember, Film

  George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

  Eberhard Weber

  Waiting, Decline, Audience

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• AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Block, Internet, Periods

  "Bill would profoundly change the Internet" by David Lazarus, www.sfgate.com. April 5, 2006.

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• My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

  Emma Bonino

  Mother, Father, School

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• No one can live under degradation.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Degradation

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• I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

  Lee Majors

  Believe, Thinking, Age

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• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Cynical, Shame, Manners

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• The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Humanity, Literature

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• A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

  Sylvia Browne

  Thinking, Ghost, Aggravated

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• All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

  Dick Schaap

  Art, Hype, Shrinking

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

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Thinking, Numbers

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• To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Deterioration, Admiration, Proof

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.320, Transaction Publishers

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• It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Cost, Degradation, Unreliability

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• This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

  Du Fu

  Giving, Support, Helping

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• It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Horse, Hero

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• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  Felix Adler

  Family, School, Parenting

  FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

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• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  William Blake

  Art, Vices, Foundation

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, Second Amendment, Arms

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Wisdom, Vision

  "Visualizing Categorical Data". Book by Michael Friendly, ch. 3.5, p. 85, 2000.

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• 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

  Father, Son, Ideas

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, December 11, 1852.

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

  Walt Whitman

  Community, Done, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Letting Go, Done, Fixing

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