Aggravation Quotes - Page 8

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  Fay Godwin

  Responsibility, Greed, Degradation

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• But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

  Ernestine Rose

  Husband, Ideas, Clothes

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

  Boethius

  Behavior, Music Is, Degrade

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• Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

  Peter Coyote

  Healthy, Way, Environment

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• So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

  Tony Randall

  Thinking, Awards, People

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• Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Struggle, Literature

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

  Jane Rule

  Education, Messages, Liberation

  Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

  Elihu Root

  Animal, Men, Wicked

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

  Keith Henson

  Flying, Wonder, Made

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• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  Nathan Deal

  Philosophy, People, Life Is

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• 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.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Civilization, Long, Next

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• ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Country, Government, Europe

  Thomas Bulfinch “Bulfinch's Mythology: Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages, The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur and The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (Complete)”, Library of Alexandria

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• Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Movie, Rights, Decline

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

  Penelope Spheeris

  Fleas, Flea Markets, Decline

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• There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

  Mark Rydell

  Technology, Industrialization, Social

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• Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.

  Amy Neftzger

  Pain, People, Giving

  Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.13, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

  Sakya Pandita

  Beauty, Men, Flames

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• 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.

  Warren Rudman

  Taken, Long, Congress

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

  Jacques Delors

  Unions, May, Faults

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• I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Mean, Thinking, Numbers

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• I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

  Peter L. Berger

  Organization, People, League

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• Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Decline, Found, Wanted

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• Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Voice, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, France, Decline

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• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Office, Effort, Judicial Power

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