Annoying Quotes - Page 28

• Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Men, Advice

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Wings, People

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• The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Disposition, Harm

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• I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  People, Gossip, Conclusion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Rocks, Want, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

  Emily Dickinson

  Tragedy, Literature, Bees

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Pain, Dad, Light

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• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Science, Climbing

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 5, 2005.

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• There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupid, People, Lazy

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• A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

  Harold MacMillan

  Trust, Men, Kind

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• No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Giving, Car

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• It actually dawned on me that I don’t fight. I just kill whatever annoys me, and it’s over. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Savitar

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.182, Macmillan

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• If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Guests, Mercy, Satanism

  "The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth" by Anton Szandor LaVey, www.buzzfeed.com. 1967.

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• If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Poetry, Want, Ifs

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1762, Random House

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• What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?

  Cassandra Clare

  Idiot, Reasonable, Will Herondale

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Forgiveness, Anger, Annoyance

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• I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

  Larry Page

  Communication, Mean, Hard Work

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.

  J. D. Salinger

  Coffee, Mean, Hell

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: "And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink"? It's like talking to a supermodel.

  Joan Rivers

  Grandchildren, Pigs, Talking

  "Thanks for the Laughs, Joan Rivers: 47 of Her Greatest Jokes" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. September 04, 2015.

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• It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?" I could tell you I've got superpowers. But I can't go up to people saying "Prove I can't fly." They'd go: "What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly'? Prove you can!"

  Ricky Gervais

  Fear, Believe, Mean

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• Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thanksgiving, People, Drunk

  "Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.

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• We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lord’s way. Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Letting Go, People, Perfect

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• Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moments, Feels, Benevolent

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• I invited a few people to help celebrate your birthday," Cameron said sheepishly. She threw up her hands. "Surprise." "We sort of come with the package," Collin explained. "Think of it as a collective gift from all of us to you: five bona fide annoying and overly intrusive new best friends." "It's the gift that keeps on giving," Wilkins said. Jack grinned. "I'm touched. Really. And since it appears I'm going to be moving in, let me be the first to say that all of you are always welcome at my and Cameron's house. Subject to a minimum of forty-eight hours prior notification.

  Julie James

  Moving, Thinking, Forty Eight

  Julie James (2010). “Something About You”, p.217, Penguin

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