In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Microplastics will cause us so many problems, that wars will just seem like a small irritation.” — Anthony T. Hincks Copy Share Image
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more… — Lewis Wolpert 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
Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this… — Indira Gandhi 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
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from… — Maximus the Confessor 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
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 Copy Share Image
“You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“By the second day, the song lyrics had faded, but in their place came darker irritations. Gradually, I started to become aware… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation. — Whoopi Goldberg 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
She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects."… — Michele Bardsley Copy Share Image
Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed,… — Caroline Wells Healey Dall Copy Share Image
