Irritation Quotes · Page 3

“For some people, a fixed state of irritation is oxygen. I understand this all too well.”

— Jamaica Kincaid

“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.”

— Kuansiew

There are those who see happily Others the burning house, feeling of irritation occurs, when your hands are burning

— Mak_786

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

— Pema Chodron

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way…

— Anita Brookner

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme…

— Patricia Wentworth

Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.

— Dalai Lama

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach…

— Pema Chodron

Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine…

— Honore de Balzac

“Nonsense. One day, the right man will come along, and you’ll change your mind.” Harriet wasn’t so sure. In all her twenty-four…

— Karen Hawkins

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle…

— Benjamin Harrison

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's…

— Moby

Every feeling is a field of energy. A pleasant feeling is an energy which can nourish. Irritation is a feeling which can…

— Nhat Hanh

“He is disappointed because he has solved the problem, and has gone back to the baseline state of boredom and low-level irritation…

— Neal Stephenson

Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you…

— Judith Martin

All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

“So, along with clear seeing, there’s another important element, and that’s kindness. It seems that, without clarity and honesty, we don’t progress.…

— Pema Chödrön

Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Dani," Decker said firmly. "Trust me, this is not a dream." "Why is it you men always say trust me before spitting…

— Lynsay Sands

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“From Brandon's perspective, this kid possessed the unique ability (it was actually more of a gift) to get under his skin. Most…

— Jeff Kinley

Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation…

— Neal A. Maxwell

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

— Steve Maraboli

Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause…

— Don Marquis

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

— Leo Burnett

“To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

— Jonathan Swift

“It was a constant source of irritation to him that the public men on his side were, on the whole, not conspicuously…

— George Eliot

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Microplastics will cause us so many problems, that wars will just seem like a small irritation.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.

— Geoff Dyer

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.”

— Kevin Kelly

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

— Horace

“the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.”

— Jodi Picoult

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

— Dale Carnegie

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and…

— Edna Ferber

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

— William P. Young

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

— Anne Robinson