Aggravation Quotes - Page 3

Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

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.