Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I wasn’t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I’d braced myself for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“Dredging up some semblance of annoyance, Celaena stuck out her tongue. At the guards, at the market, at the hawk on the… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“My mother repressed a shudder of apprehension, for, being more rapid in perception than my father, she grew alarmed on his account… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time. " I turned and met the amused eyes of Christian Ozera,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation,… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh.… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
“Jessamine flushed. "I do not . I mean, I did not. I mean--ugh! Charlotte, Will's being vexing." "And the sun has come… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?" I slip my hand through the slit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“A hint of annoyance hardened Sicarius’s dark eyes, and Books imagined him thinking, I can’t leave for five minutes without you getting… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days… — Plautus Copy Share Image
Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are.… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The panther prowled around me in a loose, wide circle. Its mouth turned down, almost in a pout, and it seemed disappointed… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Will that be all?” I asked the pimply faced teen who ogled my exposed legs as if in heat. My pen tapped… — Brandi Salazar Copy Share Image
Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I think in certain ways sex work has been romanticized. I can only speak from my experience, but what surprised me about… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
