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“Life is short. Don't be a turd.”

Kindness Being A Good Person Being Kind Irritability Crankiness Caring About Others Being Cranky Not Being Rude

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“If we cannot tame the valkyries of our emotions and restrain the burgeoning crankiness of our actions, we have to empower our mind, at some point, and let time flow on the waves of remission and compassion… and loosen up. ("Transcendental meditation")”

Compassion Meditation Emotions Transcendence Empower Remission Tame Valkyries Crankiness Loosen Up

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“The day we finally hold ourselves accountable, rather than putting the blame on others, and come clean about our responsibilities, we unfetter ourselves from ravaging frustrations and fretting crankiness. ("The unbearable heaviness of being" )”

Blame Heaviness Accountable Fretting Responsibilities Frustrations Crankiness Come Clean Unfetter

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“She was being folkloric. Hubbard was supposed to be charmed. But since the demise of his Previous Marriage, about five and a half days ago, he'd been sullen. He once read about a Sioux warrior named Cranky Man, and now he thought: That's me.”

Irritability Crankiness Sullenness Quick Temper

Book:Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction

Source: Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction

“Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.”

Mind Interesting Personality Individuality British Variety Eccentricity Crankiness

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Crankiness is a human attribute that when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.”

People Way Humans Force Walks Doors Best Way Attributes Cant Respectful Disrespectful Be Respectful Xerox Crankiness

Author:Ursula Burns

“They [leftists] want to eliminate the concept of winners and losers. They want to wipe out the fact that there are any differences, particularly outcome differences, from one person to another. The things that they seek are not possible. The things that they seek are rooted in self-loathing, misery, unhappiness, crankiness, whatever.”

Want Persons Self Facts Differences Concepts Misery Winner Outcomes Unhappiness Loser Rooted Wipe Loathing Self Loathing Leftists Winner And Loser Crankiness

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.”

Knows Comedy Essence Crankiness

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time.”

Thousand Waste Valuable Inevitable Sunset Maps Wasting Time Twelve Sunrise Sunrise And Sunset Crankiness

Book:The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel

Source: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel

“It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.”

Kind Persons Different Girl Easy Distance Unattainable Bossy Crankiness

Author:John Green

“There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.”

Mind Business Risk Advice Saving Steady Commerce Keel Ballast Crankiness

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way”

Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume