Top 38 Quotes About Annoyances
#1. I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.
Frank Stella
#2. Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#3. [Peabody:] "Bite me."
Though Eve managed to swallow a chuckle at her aide's use of her own standard response to annoyances, she didn't quite make it over McNab's cheerful, "Where?
J.D. Robb
#4. most people have better things to do than bother Sylvester, who has a history of permanent solutions to temporary annoyances.
Seanan McGuire
#5. The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.
Steve Martin
#6. Take patiently the petty annoyances, the trifling discomforts, the unimportant losses which come upon all of us daily; for by means of these little matters, lovingly and freely accepted, you will give Him your whole heart, and win His.
Francis De Sales
#7. In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.
George R R Martin
#8. By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
Nikola Tesla
#9. Her laugh did something to him, Quill realized. Touched some part of him that admired her indefatigable spirit. Despite her discomfort and distress at being drenched, she was in possession of the sort of temperament that did not allow the petty annoyances of life to dampen her spirit.
Manda Collins
#10. I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.
Herbert Spencer
#11. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
Kin Hubbard
#12. Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!
Charlotte Alington Barnard
#13. The world is full of annoyances, none more infuriating than a fool with a valid point.
K.J. Parker
#14. MRS ALLONBY Have you tried a good reputation?
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.
Oscar Wilde
#15. The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.
Tyne Daly
#17. Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.
Harvey Penick
#18. In particular, I'd realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or fleeting worries. I'd wanted to appreciate my life more, and to live up to it better.
Gretchen Rubin
#19. The dealer may know the technicalities, but it's the driver who learns the annoyances and tricks of the vehicle.
Ben Tolosa
#20. It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
Laura Schlessinger
#21. Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.
Jeaniene Frost
#22. If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.
Grace Coolidge
#23. Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#24. But these days the demons are more insidious; they're the everyday annoyances, the little things that suck away our potential to do big things.
Jocelyn K. Glei
#25. I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.
Oprah Winfrey
#26. Many writers have reported being able to forestall the petty annoyances of life by maintaining the shared illusion that they are working at something productive...a facility they share with prostitutes and attorneys.
Kenneth B. Lifshitz
#27. If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#28. What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
Marquis De Custine
#29. Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life--the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within--can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
George Eliot
#30. Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service
#31. Peace isnt the absence of distraction or annoyance or pain. Its finding Me, finding peace and calm, in the midst of those distractions and annoyances and pains.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#32. Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.
Michel De Montaigne
#33. Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#34. My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointments, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking Him for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems.
Catherine Marshall
#35. Seeing one face continually in crowds is one of the minor annoyances of being in love.
Elizabeth Taylor
#36. Here's something about Mom: she's bad with annoyances, but great in a crisis. If a waiter doesn't refill her water after she's asked three times, or she forgets her dark glasses when the sun comes out, look out! But when it comes to something truly bad happening, Mom plugs into this supreme calm.
Maria Semple
#37. Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!
Victoria Addino
#38. I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to. Society has got me so fucking trained. I rubbed my eyes and groaned and felt utterly alone in the world.
David Wong
