#nuisance

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? ↗

— Charles Olson

#cease #everybody #government #nuisance #will

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#admit #amidst #away #cannot #censorship

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. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#almost #been #biggest #considers #games

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. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#come #easily #himself #imagine #man

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fools #nuisance #death

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

— Daniel H. Hill

#correspondent #known #nuisance #service

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'. ↗

— Frank Carson

#british #i #nuisance #rang #report

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity. ↗

— David Low

#here #lies #nuisance #sanity

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

— John Stuart Mill

#himself #individual #liberty #limited #make

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#attention #cannot #command #least #nuisance