Rex Stout Quotes

I'm a little angry in life.

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

I get annoyed with rushing. Then I get in a bad mood - I'm so cranky. I hate being late.

I knew it... I'm surrounded by assholes!

People are always ruining things for you.

People think that you're supposed to marry your type well, I didn't marry my type. It's much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence. So when you have that, and you're happy, and you love her, don't waste time. Because time - and I've learned that at this point in my life - time is my most precious commodity. Nothing is more precious than time. Because when it runs out that's it

You call this a party? The beer is warm, the women cold and I'm hot under the collar.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

What time is it in New York?" He shook his head. "An hour later than it is here. The earth simply has to revolve, Eve, however annoying it is for you." "It can revolve all it wants. I just don't see why people can't settle on the same time.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

Everywhere you turn, you see me in a movie, and I'm sorry. At this point, people must be saying, 'God, Biggs again? Can't we get away from this guy?'

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who asks us to place at the center of our lives love for him and for the people he has loved. It is especially adolescents and young people, who feel within them the pressing call to love, who need to be freed from the widespread prejudice that Christianity, with its commandments and prohibitions, sets too many obstacles in the path of the joy of love and, in particular prevents people from fully enjoying the happiness that men and women find in their love for one another.

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.