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“We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.”

People Knows Heart May Reason Values Humility Divine Ego Glory Simplicity Modesty Freshness Nuisance

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?”

“There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment.”

Feels May Turns Chance Walks Destiny Risk Doors Sticks Leaving Kicks Swings Disgusting Unnecessary Fists Deprived Enchantment Hinges Nuisance Knobs Chances In Life

Author:Tom Robbins

“Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.”

Should Term Subjects Prison Participants Parades Nuisance

Book:The Writings of Will Rogers

Source: The Writings of Will Rogers

“Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.”

Cities Environment Air Modern Industry Achievement Threat Plant Environmental Planes Pollution Technological Reminders Automobile Jet Nuisance Power Plants Air Pollution Jet Planes

Author:Barry Commoner

“Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.”

Book Mines Reader Strikes Cracks Gems Nuisance

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I really started getting my body ready when I was a freshman in high school. I had just been skating so much, and just started getting so annoyed with leg hair and arm hair, because I was falling so much when I was learning. So I would get scabs on my legs, and the hair would get caught in it. It just became a nuisance. And from that point on, I continued to shave my arms and legs and tried to stay sleek.”

Body School Fall Ready Hair Arms High School Caught Legs Annoyed Skating Nuisance Freshman Arms And Legs Scabs

Author:Ryan Sheckler

“Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea's breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.”

Should Sea Masters Kings Skills Clothes Wings Heels Surfing Nuisance Mellow

Author:Jack London

“There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.”

Known Army Nuisance

Author:Daniel Harvey Hill

“Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.”

People Knows Mean Littles Persons Humanity Intellectual Menace Nuisance Clueless Disservice

Author:George Jonas

“I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.”

Dream Turns Courses Sound Doors Band Miles Fifty Melancholy Miles Away Nuisance Brass Bagpipes Brass Bands

Author:Thomas Beecham

“The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.”

Government Politics Teaching Citizens Comfort Protection Principal Cheat Bully Nuisance Good Citizen Obstruction

Book:Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed

Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed

“Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.”

Bears Anxiety Nuisance

Author:Josh Billings

“The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.”

Long Problem Law Purpose Wonderful Changed Long Time Harmony Solve Obedience Free Will Long Time Ago Disobedience Great Day Nuisance Obedience To God

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.”

Two Facts Minutes Mere Cease Theology Categories Separating Nuisance

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.”

Understanding Method Length Prime Decay Exhausted Comes And Goes Triumphant Nuisance Philosophic

Book:Adventures of Ideas

Source: Adventures of Ideas

“Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.”

Realizing Nuisance Bernard Shaw

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it.”

Too Much Feds Parking Fed Up Nuisance Commuting

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself.”

Men Way Fields Bigger Efficient Unlimited Unbearable Ingenuity Nuisance Devising

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.”

Ifs Men World Proud Fellows Burden Arrogant Dependence Nuisance

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.”

Particular Dust Smoke Vibrations Nuisance Sewage

Author:Yehuda Levi

“Mainly, of course, if you're not an ice climber, where you really need ice, for most people ice is a damn nuisance. And we just can't wait for it to all melt.And it's always a remarkable fact that it takes so long to melt because the temperature of the air can be well above the freezing point, and the ice is still solid there. So for most people, that's the experience.”

People Ifs Needs Wells Long Stills Facts Courses Waiting Air Ice Damn Remarkable Temperature Nuisance Freezing Climbers

Author:Ira Flatow

“Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.”

Cleverness Nuisance

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.”

Source: For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization

“It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.”

Ifs Two Soul Seems Would Be Difficult Views Mountain Limits Average Variety Charm Dull Native Thrown Lakes Flats Inquiry Comprehensive County Retrospect Switzerland Nuisance Statistician

Author:Francis Galton

“Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.”

Firsts Children Home Parent Answers Numbers Information Adults Observation Willingness Household Imitation Nuisance Emulation

Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

“Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows and the cyclists. So for the first time the sacred cow in India, which used to be such a wonderful speed-breaker, is now seen as a nuisance. For the first time, Ive seen cows being hit and hurt. These guys just go right past, and if the cow is sitting on the road, they dont care. We cant afford to have a sacred car rather than a sacred cow.”

Ifs Firsts Care Past Used Guy Hurt Wonderful Streets Car Models Sitting First Time India Sacred Don't Care Speed Used To Be Cows Intolerance Nuisance New Car Delhi Cyclists Sacred Cows

Author:Vandana Shiva

“One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.”

Long Hard Dream Together Pure Late Scientist Mathematics Combination Engineers Adolescence Geometry Hard Things Combining Nuisance Fractals High Points

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.”

Values Democratic Individuality Nuisance

Author:Edgar Friedenberg

“Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."”

People Ifs Want Able Cutting Risk Rocks Boat Making Changes Nuisance

Author:Brandon Marshall

“As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't mean that we should run the risk of making a nuisance of ourselves by witnessing at improper times, but there comes a time when we must show that we disagree.”

Giving Should Mean Shows Running Christian Too Much Risk Disagree Unnecessary Tempted Nuisance There Comes A Time Concessions

Author:C. S. Lewis

“In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.”

People Country Life Is Values Known South South Africa Life Is Like Nuisance

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“There's all kinds of conservative donors. The Koch brothers are big donors. There's all kinds of them. But none of them have actively organized hate groups that run around and protest and try to upset people and get in as close as they can to their lives and the way they live them and make a nuisance of themselves. That's not how the right has always sought to win elections.”

People Way Trying Kind Bigs Running Hate Winning Groups Brother Election Conservative All Kinds Upset Organized Protest Nuisance Donors Hate Groups

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.”

Ifs Men Wish Drunk Interfere Nuisance Getting Drunk

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Every day we'd trudge up the hill - it was a three-quarter-mile walk up this steep hill to the Leach Pottery, and we would take our lunch with us and generally, I guess, make a nuisance of ourselves.”

Three Walks Miles Hills Lunch Quarters Steep Nuisance Pottery

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.”

Humanity Views Issues Violence Threat Criminals Isis Strategic Nuisance

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.”

People Individual Liberty Nuisance

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.”

Want Has Beens Games Violent Video Garbage Toss Nuisance Garbage Cans Violent Video Games

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.”

Three House Friendship Travel Welcome Guests Cynicism Altruism Nuisance House Guests

Author:Plautus

“It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.”

Men May Reality Imagine Proud Universal Vain Nuisance

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.”

Regret Perfection Smoking Tobacco Nuisance

Author:Emile Zola

“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.”

Giving I Can Women Ready Becoming Vanity Not Ready Nuisance

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.”

Ifs Years Mind Said Light Eye Forget Accepting Disease Adults Roots Crisis Painful Proportion Chickens Milk Smallest Adolescence Oxygen Nuisance Light Years Pox This Too Shall Pass

Author:Jodi Picoult

“A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.”

Ifs World Humans Human Beings Occupation Nuisance

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

Men Forgiving Nuisance Learn To Forgive

Book:The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.”

Men Persons Culture Equal Weapons Excellence Nuclear Experts Nuclear Weapons Ecology Nuisance Credo

Book:The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.”

Made Relation Property Nuisance

Book:Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

“What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?”

Sleep Blessing Echoes Nuisance Respite

Book:The Thorn Birds

Source: The Thorn Birds

“There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.”

People Thinking Men Virtue Elements Good Man Conception Nuisance Busybodies

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.”

Bed Glory Dawn Never Ending Early Morning Nuisance Daybreak

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton