Nagging Quotes

• I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

  Janet Flanner

  Sentences, Keep Going

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

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• Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

  Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

  Funny, Witty, Repetition

  Speech to Married Women's Association, House of Commons, 14 July 1960, in The Times 15 July 1960

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• People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.

  Michelle Gielan

  People, Stronger, Approach

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...'

  Mike Binder

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.

  Arthur Japin

  Pain, Forever, Tolerance

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• My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

  Tom Arnold

  Love, Airports, Wife

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• A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

  William Feather

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

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• To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.

  C. S. Lewis

  Daughter, Mother, Bullying

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• Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Real, Believe, Character

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• When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sports, Men, Feminist

  "Feminists Still on the Warpath to Get Their Man". humanevents.com. February 15, 2005.

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• I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

  Bill Watterson

  Doubt, Listening, Quiet

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• Don't count on the power of your love or your nagging to create something that wasn't there to begin with.

  Harriet Lerner

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 16, 2016

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• If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

  Susan Forward

  Self, Understanding, Firsts

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• When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

  Nelly Sachs

  Sleep, Men, Breathing

  Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.

  Bruce Feiler

  Tired, Kids, Ideas

  "Forget Flowers, 5 Ways to Make Mom Happier" by Bruce Feiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

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• I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

  Gretchen Rubin

  Saying No, Fine, Persons

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

  Donald Miller

  Ideas, Risk, Special

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• Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother.

  Clinton Anderson

  Mother, White, Black

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• You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tired, Iron, Feet

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. December 5, 1955.

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• Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.

  Robert Breault

  Men, Feelings, Intuition

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• Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

  Deb Caletti

  Blue, Numbness, Worry

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• At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

  John Green

  Alaska, Labyrinth, Mazes

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

  James A. Baldwin

  Home, Mean, Thinking

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• The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Kindness, Real

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.217, Multnomah

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• I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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