Irritable Quotes
58 quotes by 55 authors
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right…
— Oswald Chambers
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aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the…
— A. P. Herbert
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The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.
— George Washington
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to…
— Clive Barker
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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will…
— William James
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.
— Ma Huateng
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
— Berthold Auerbach
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Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I…
— Ayelet Waldman
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I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.
— Julie Walters
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We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous…
— John Gallagher, Jr.
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Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious,…
— William Duncan Silkworth
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Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
— William Barclay
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In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
— Nigella Lawson
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I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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