“Somewhere in Barney's mind, as a spark flickers and finds tinder and blazes up into a flame, a small light of resentment… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Having to do everything and nobody does nothing is irritating. Being unappreciated is irritating. Ungrateful people are irritating. Not knowing where you… — Junu Junu'z Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart 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
To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation,… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Face it, you stupid little cookie maker,” Jenks said, almost sounding fond, “in the last couple of days you’ve seen what it’s… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Aristotle have shown how the principle of mutual fear actively binds men into the contracts that support the political commonwealth, and how… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out. He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do… — Brian Friel 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
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
Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Not really hungry." "She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation."… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does… — Herbert Newton Casson 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
“She was edgy, her mood still unruffled and didn’t know if it was a result of the reticule strangeness, irritation over the… — Nancy Campbell Allen Copy Share Image
“True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do -… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“The irritation she displayed as she dealt with the heavy fabric made me smile. My lady had become accustomed to the freedom… — Christina Boyd Copy Share Image
Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“And if I wasn't able to bar anger, or her insidious cousin, irritation, From my heart, at least some of the time… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
“For all the things that had happened to her, all the people she had met, the miles of ocean she had covered,… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Lemoine could feel himself becoming angry. It was pretty fucking irritating, he thought, that he was yet to go a single day… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other,… — Adele Faber Copy Share Image
