Quotes of Nag - somelinesforyou

“ My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I 'll not budge an inch. - The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Let the world slide. - The Taming of the Shrew. Induc. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ People have a way of becoming what you encourage to them to be — not what you nag them to be. ”

- Scudder N. Parker

“ Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. ”

- John Updike

“ I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ”

- Janet Flanner

“ The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. ”

- Gough Whitlam

“ People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be — not what you nag them to be. ”

- S.N. Parker

“ Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. ”

- Edith Summerskill

“ When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts. ”

- Joan Borysenko

“ I have… had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. ”

- Colin McEnroe

“ Much of the ache and the brooding unhappiness in modern man is the result of his difficulty in using himself fully. He performs compartmentalized tasks in a compartmentalized world. But there are vast urges of conscience, natural purpose and goodness inside him demanding air and release… ”

- Norman Cousins

“ We tell ourselves so many lies and half-truths…We listen and are duly impressed by these inner voices that turn into unseen judges that nag at us. We give each of these judges a seat of honor in our minds, all the while hating their guts and their never-ending supply of judgements…We give the judges permission to accompany us on each journey of life, never daring to realize that we can park them, at least momentarily. ”

- Eloise Ristad

“ dreams are astoundingly important. They keep nagging you because you're supposed to fulfill them. When you sense you're special, you're not neurotic or grandiose. Something inside you is calling to you and you have to listen. When you love to do something, that means you have a gift for it…And when you're gifted at something, you have to do it. ”

- Barbara Sher

“ To carry an umbrella without any headgear places a fellow in a social no man's land-in the category of one hurrying round to the corner shop for a bottle of stout on a rainy day at the behest of a nagging landlady. ”

- John Newton
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