quotes about Irritating People

“Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.”

“Error is but the shadow of the truth.”

“One UK paper described me as a "miserablist", a word I'd never heard before or since. I looked it up and it means someone who can only be happy when they are miserable. Perfect.”

“If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?”

“Some people are just destined to be together. That's just the way it is.”

“With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.”

“In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.”

“Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.”

“From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96.”

Source : "A History of Sri Lanka". Book by K. M. De Silva, 1981.

“When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.”