The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
“If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs, it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“How marvelous to live long enough to escape your past. 196 Finding instruction in irritation is like faking an orgasm. 58” — Laurie Stone Copy Share Image
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation -… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Disavowal is an unusual form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
You've been quiet these past days," Trevanion said. "Are you going to tell me what the...exchange of words was about?" "Who said… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Confusion is the only state of mind we have where we are really out of our patterns and what we expect. Because… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I operate on anger quite a lot. Its what gets me up in the morning to make art quite often. Well, irritation… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things — John Schuerholz Copy Share Image