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Quotes About Nagging

I will understand perfectly if you don't want to answer, but I will just keep pestering you until you do.
~ Douglas Adams
Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.
~ Denise Van Outen
I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.
~ Rafael Nadal
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
~ Bill Watterson
God's curse on the man draws him unwholesomely away from the woman, even as God's curse on the woman draws her unwholesomely toward the man. This is why most marital counseling sessions are some variation on this theme: Wife-"You don't pay any attention to me." Husband-"You are too demanding and nag too much." God has cursed the marriage relationship with a poisonous desire for control by the woman and a self-absorbed focus outside the relationship by the man.
~ Richard D. Phillips
Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all.
~ Richard Mitchell
If she imagined God at all, it was as a vague entity that hung around behind her left shoulder, rather like a nagging parrot.
~ Kate Atkinson
Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.
~ Robert Breault
Emerson once remarked that if I should encounter a band of Dervishes, five minutes of my nagging would unquestionably inspire even the mildest of them to massacre me....
~ Elizabeth Peters
I actually believe we are the superior gender. Why are we superior? Statistically, we outlive men by a good 10 years. No one should underestimate the power of nagging - it's on par with nuclear weapons.
~ Twinkle Khanna
In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV, fine, but then you are in lighting and in health, and those don't have a lot to do with each other.
~ Frans van Houten
Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don't match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can't praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.
~ Soha Ali Khan
Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.
~ Robert Brault
I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.
~ James Hong
organizations that spread and sustain excellence are infused with a "relentless restlessness"—that often uncomfortable urge for constant innovation, driven by the nagging feeling that things are never quite good enough.
~ Robert I. Sutton
He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills.
~ Robin McKinley
When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?
~ Phyllis Schlafly
I grew, and then there were many strange apparitions, the nagging rain, the sun turning into poison and all of that.
~ Anne Sexton
One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward
~ Rudyard Kipling
The pain of losing something precious - be it happiness or material wealth – can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. Or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. Because without that thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.
~ Sabahattin Ali
the miraculous power of love to create a context in which people naturally blossom into their highest potential.  Neither nagging, trying to get people to change, criticizing or fixing can do that.
~ Marianne Williamson
In the face of the unknown—the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under complex circumstances, things will really be okay—
~ Atul Gawande
It's a pang of discomfort but not of pain.
~ Jojo Moyes
Her father is a doctor and away from home most of the time just like Dad, and her mother nags a lot but then I guess all mothers do. If they didn't I'd hate to see what homes and yards and even the world would look like. Oh, I do hope I won't have to be a nagging mother, but I guess I'll have to be, else I don't see how anything will ever be accomplished.
~ Beatrice Sparks