Quotes on Annoying

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important - if you want to operate on your default-setting - then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and annoying.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover. My outrageous and annoying computer personality who's about to be shut off at the behest of a half-crazy girl with OCD on a planet that I never heard of and how will I live without [her] when she's gone?

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.