Badgering Quotes

#1. I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.

Woody Harrelson

#2. Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Jay Griffiths

#3. You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.

Carolyn Hax

#4. You just couldn't give it a rest, could you, Sue? Had to keep badgering me. Snooping and poking around. I hope you're satisfied, now that you've ripped my guts out.

Wodke Hawkinson

#5. Badgering a colleague doesn't come from a fit of pique, it comes from an organic quality of the soul. And a mean soul will inevitably be reflected in music. Wagner is a convincing example of that, but far from the only one.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#6. If Washington expected relief from Hamilton badgering him for an appointment, he soon learned otherwise. Hamilton was fully prepared to become a pest.

Ron Chernow

#7. He is the sort of despicable person who has no understanding of how despicable he is, and my badgering him with insults won't change that; nothing will. Rather than angry, I just feel heavy, useless.

Veronica Roth

#8. Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?

Sharon Creech

#9. Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

Mallory Ortberg

#10. My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

Maria Semple

#11. Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

W. Edwards Deming

#12. We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully ...

Haile Selassie

#13. Music is another planet.

Alphonse Daudet

#14. I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

Donatella Versace

#15. I have a very strong work ethic, and I'm very grateful for that. But I think there was a moment when I realized, "Oh, I can play a little as well."

Carla Gugino

#16. Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.

Sarah Dessen

#17. If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old.

Carew Papritz

#18. We go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them.

Linda K. Burton

#19. Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.

Rafael Cruz

#20. The Supreme Court decided that corporations are people and they have the right of free speech and the right without disclosure - all of this is through the Citizens United Supreme Court decision - to put as much money as they want into campaigns all over the country.

Bernie Sanders

#21. I love Shay Mitchell. She is so beautiful, talented, and sweet.

Brad Goreski

#22. I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

Paula Danziger

#23. I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

David Puttnam

#24. You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj