Aggravation Quotes - Page 9

• They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Fashion, Sorry, Looks

  "Stately as a Galleon" by Joyce Grenfell, "English Lit.", 1978.

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• The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, Men, Political

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• That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

  Paul Sarbanes

  Kindness, Debtors, United States

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• There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

  Louis Leakey

  Art, Painting, Site

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• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  Patrick Macnee

  School, Acting, Actors

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• I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

  David Wenham

  Kings, Crazy, Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

  Tim Robbins

  Clever, Should Have, Cities

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• I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Television, Taste, Audience

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• I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

  Harold Bloom

  Believe, Progress, Scene

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• Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

  Philip Roth

  Greed, Decline, Volatility

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• A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

  Cotton Mather

  School, Salt, Towns

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• And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

  Rick Larsen

  Fighting, Terrorist Groups, Needs

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• We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

  Nick Lampson

  Powerful, Sacrifice, Pet

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• I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Islamic, Doe, Way

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• I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

  Josiah Warren

  Confused, Decline, Controversy

  Josiah Warren (1875). “True Civilization: A Subject of Vital and Serious Interest to All People; But Most Immediately to the Men and Women of Labor and Sorrow”, p.106

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• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  Cao Cao

  Hands, Enemy, Doubt

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• I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

  Kamisese Mara

  Heart, Deterioration, Pressure

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• I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Military, Political, Reform

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• The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

  Taylor Dane

  Men, Careers, Guy

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• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Bridges, Safe, Administration

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• Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

  Charles Rangel

  Haiti, Removal, Conditions

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• Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Alzheimer's, Grandfather, Watches

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• The climate continues to deteriorate.

  Donella Meadows

  Climate

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• The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Cutting, Men

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• Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize.

  Russ Carnahan

  Iran, Middle East, Safe

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