Aggravated Quotes

• For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't.

  David Simon

  Jobs, Attitude, Real

  David Simon (2008). “Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets”, p.613, Canongate Books

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• A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Character, Blow, Aggravation

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.13

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• It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

  Albert Wynn

  Gang Members, Years, Aggravation

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• 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.

  Sylvia Browne

  Thinking, Aggravation, Ghost

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• Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

  Plato

  Plato, Democracies Have, Political

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• I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.

  Ryan Lochte

  Flow, Honestly, Whatever Happens Happens

  "Ryan Lochte loves his mom, really wants to meet Lil Wayne". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Rights, Good Service, Consumers

  "Sophie's world". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2002.

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Brave, Desperate

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Desperate, Cowardice

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• What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Spiritual, Past

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• Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

  Criss Jami

  Honesty, Confusion, Painful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

  Wallace Stegner

  Want, Persistent, Live By

  Wallace Stegner (1991). “All the Little Live Things”, p.96, Penguin

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• The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for your art, but I have been talking to a lot of younger, aspiring cartoonists who very quickly get discouraged if they aren't getting a lot of attention immediately. This can also be aggravated by artists who appear to be really quickly Tumblr-famous, and get lots of notes on their work.

  Liz Prince

  Art, Talking, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how much to forget is really aggravated for those who have lost a tremendous amount.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Memories, Thinking, Degrees

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, People, Noses

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.337

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• It's getting crazier and crazier each day. A lot of people think I'd get aggravated, but I just stay with a smile and keep on. It's the life I chose, and you have to deal with it. If not, change what you're doing.

  Vince Young

  Thinking, People, Each Day

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• Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered. Harsh mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses were passed by Congress in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs and the "get tough" movement, sentences that have helped to fuel our nation's prison boom and have also greatly aggravated racial disparities, particularly in the application of mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Giving, Judging

  "Michelle Alexander: “Zimmerman Mindset” Endangers Young Black Lives with Poverty, Prison & Murder". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 17, 2013.

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• all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Mother, Daughter, Lying

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• The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

  Peter Drucker

  Focus, Inward, Cost

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• My dad told me at the very beginning of my career, basically, "If you're gonna have a megaphone, you're gonna need to use it to do some kind of good." He has always been aggravated by any kind of celebrities that don't have any charities or love or passion or something they're trying to help.

  Ben Feldman

  Dad, Passion, Careers

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Weakness, Lawyer

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• A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Past, Men, Long

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• Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.

  Katie Couric

  Lunch, Pie, President

  twitter.com. January 27, 2010.

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• I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist.

  Ilona Andrews

  Facts, Persons, Walking

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.225, Penguin

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