Aggravations Quotes

#1. All I knew was that once again I found myself alone, with even less desire to live and nothing to look forward to but aggravations.

Michel Houellebecq

#2. If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.

Edmund Phelps

#3. Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

William Osler

#4. If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

Malcolm Forbes

#5. If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

Malcolm Forbes

#6. The mere difficulty of getting hold of a house is one of the worst aggravations of poverty.

George Orwell

#7. The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.

Michel Houellebecq

#8. The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

Gustave Flaubert

#9. She'd looked at herself with a sigh, having hoped her reflection would show something more than the road-weary waif who sighed back at her, bright curls disheveled and darkened by dust, pale eyes reddened and circled by shadows of sleeplessness.

Susanna Kearsley

#10. All war aims for impunity.

Michael Ignatieff

#11. The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

Peter Drucker

#12. I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

Anthony Kiedis

#13. The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.

Karl Popper