Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me...it is a nuisance. — Yun Kouga Copy Share Image
Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster. — Geert Hofstede Copy Share Image
Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may. — Sally Stanford Copy Share Image
“I'm going to take every chance I get to make a nuisance of myself when somebody I admire is in the vicinity...” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become… — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Call me nuisance, call me a freak, but you'll never going to take my love away from this game. — CJ Copy Share Image
So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on,… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your… — Jack London Copy Share Image
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face.… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to… — Frank Bettger Copy Share Image
Practically everybody knows what it's like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal.… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
I really started getting my body ready when I was a freshman in high school. I had just been skating so much,… — Ryan Sheckler Copy Share Image
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations. — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
A broom that consitutes a nuisance at sight,become use when the room is dirty. — Don Stainless Wizzy Copy Share Image
“Work — once merely an annoying nuisance — has become an agonizing torture.” — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image