Aggravation Quotes

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.