Annoyance Quotes
76 quotes by 71 authors
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the…
— Thomas Adams
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight…
— Michael Josephson
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O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in…
— Robin Winks
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If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when…
— George Washington
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Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.
— Kate Elliott
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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance,…
— Hilaire Belloc
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So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up a lot of things…
— Werner Erhard
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Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.
— C. D. Darlington
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What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
— Marquis de Custine
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You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize…
— Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October,…
— Henry Mitchell
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I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally…
— Anatoly Karpov
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Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without…
— Emanuel Lasker
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Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely…
— Jeffrey Tucker
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When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness.…
— Sengcan
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The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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