These aggravated quotes will inspire you. Aggravated (of an offense) made more serious by attendant circumstances (such as the frame of mind) or (of a penalty) made more severe in recognition of the seriousness of an offense.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging aggravated quotes, aggravated sayings, and aggravated proverbs.
Famous Aggravated Quotes
- “I honestly really don’t get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.” ~ Ryan Lochte
- “It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.” ~ Wallace Stegner
- “It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.” ~ Albert Wynn
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“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” ~ Plato
- “A ghost is someone who hasn’t made it – in other words, who died, and they don’t know they’re dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you’re inhabiting their – let’s say their domain. So they’re aggravated with you.” ~ Sylvia Browne
- “For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he’s finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment – all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don’t.” ~ David Simon
- “Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
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“I’m all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don’t get a good service.” ~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
- “What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you’re going to fly off the handle at everything and that’s what I did in the past. I’ve kind of got that under control now.” ~ Mike Ditka , Feeling aggravated quotes
- “A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.” ~ Criss Jami
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“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
- “The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts–a child–as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .” ~ Mother Teresa
- “In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross – with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved – injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.” ~ Elias Lyman Magoon
- “You really don’t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even? (Dev)” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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“The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organized crime, especially organized aggravated robbery” ~ Charles Nqakula
- “Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.” ~ Josiah Bartlett
- “Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.” ~ Carl Cohen
- “Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation, it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But its hackneyed omnipresence means the vast majority of its outbreaks are trivial. The paucity of colorful obscenities is aggravated by an abundance of frivolous fury.” ~ Rob Brezsny
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“Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus – a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.” ~ Hugo Chavez
- “It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world’s most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.” ~ Mark Ruffalo
- “I take life for what it has to offer me. I don’t get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?” ~ Eartha Kitt
- “I don’t know about immortal, but I must say that to me to touch more women and to have them understand friendships is important. I’ve had girls come up to me who said, “Yeah, after I saw ‘Beaches’ I called up my friend Denise who I was really mad at. She got me so aggravated and I called her and we made up.” So if I could do that with this new release, yes, that would be very pleasing to me because, hey, it’s a tough world. You need friends out there.” ~ Garry Marshall
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“The computer actually may have aggravated management’s degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka’s ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.” ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
- “My dad told me at the very beginning of my career, basically, “If you’re gonna have a megaphone, you’re gonna need to use it to do some kind of good.” He has always been aggravated by any kind of celebrities that don’t have any charities or love or passion or something they’re trying to help.” ~ Ben Feldman
- “I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how much to forget is really aggravated for those who have lost a tremendous amount.” ~ Nguyen Viet Thang
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“Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.” ~ Preston Manning
- “Mandatory minimum sentences give no discretion to judges about the amount of time that the person should receive once a guilty verdict is rendered. Harsh mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses were passed by Congress in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs and the “get tough” movement, sentences that have helped to fuel our nation’s prison boom and have also greatly aggravated racial disparities, particularly in the application of mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine.” ~ Michelle Alexander
- “I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for your art, but I have been talking to a lot of younger, aspiring cartoonists who very quickly get discouraged if they aren’t getting a lot of attention immediately. This can also be aggravated by artists who appear to be really quickly Tumblr-famous, and get lots of notes on their work.” ~ Liz Prince
- “Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call ‘aggravated’ despair.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
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“It’s getting crazier and crazier each day. A lot of people think I’d get aggravated, but I just stay with a smile and keep on. It’s the life I chose, and you have to deal with it. If not, change what you’re doing.” ~ Vince Young
- “A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.” ~ Ban Ki-moon
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“I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist.” ~ Ilona Andrews
- “Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the “Now” is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.” ~ Sylvia Browne
- “Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%, aggravated assaults by 7%, and robbery by 3%… While support for strict gun-control laws usually has been strongest in large cities, where crime rates are highest, that’s precisely where right-to-carry laws have produced the largest drops in violent crimes.” ~ John R. Lott Jr.
- “I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.” ~ Charles Dickens
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“Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated, and resolute. Didn’t eat his pie.” ~ Katie Couric
- “It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements – not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.” ~ Phyllis Bottome
- “Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration – which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better – has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.” ~ George Will
Aggravated is angry or displeased especially because of small problems or annoyances: feeling or showing aggravation.
