Irritated Quotes - Page 6

• A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Heart, Two, People

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• During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.

  Amanda Hocking

  Morning, Annoyed, Mind

  Amanda Hocking (2012). “Torn”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• I would have thought even a certified idiot like Gabriel here would have taken account of it and notified someone." "Notified who?" asked Jem, not unreasonably. He had moved closer to Tessa as the conversation had continued. As they stood side by side, the backs of their hands brushed. "The Clave. The postman. Us. Anyone," said Will, shooting an irritated look at Gabriel, who was starting to get some color back and looked furious. "I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Hands, Color

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• History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

  Henry Adams

  History, Fleas, Profession

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Men, Feelings

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.32

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• I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.

  Brad Pitt

  Marijuana, Dope, Smoking

  "Brad Pitt spent decade smoking marijuana: Which '90s star came out on top?", www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  One Day, Needs, Done

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• I am a little discouraged and irritated at the welfare recipient families growing in size all the time. Those of us who work and pay taxes all the time shouldn't have to pay for these kids.

  Hilmar Moore

  Kids, Abortion, Growing

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• Have you ever had any anger about President Bush - who spent his time during the Vietnam War in the National Guard - running, in effect, a campaign that does its best to diminish your service in Vietnam? You have to be at least irritated by that, or have you been?

  Dan Rather

  Running, War, President

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• It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

  Mickey Rivers

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen

  George Washington

  Passion, Army, Men

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1839). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.111

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• Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ruins, Appetite

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

  Charlotte Church

  My Boyfriend, Singing, Doe

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• Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was. . . . For it is those things - and only those things - that made him what he was. . . . You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

  Dale Carnegie

  Humility, People, Mind

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• The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Years, Pet, World

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• All these Lil' rappers, I'm just kind of getting real irritated by it. I said, 'You know what? Drop the Lil'. Forget it. I'm Bow Wow.'

  Bow Wow

  Real, Rapper, Wow

  "Bow Wow Drops The Lil', Collars Tour Dates" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. April 4, 2002.

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• Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Negativity, Over You, Opponents

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• Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbour, and for judging him, as we are in the habit of doing. Everyone shall give an answer to God for himself. Everyone has a conscience; everyone hears God's Word, and knows God's Will either from books or from conversation with other people. Especially do not look with evil intention upon the sins of your elders, which do not regard you; "to his own master he standeth or falleth." Correct your own sins, amend your own life.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Book, Passion

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• The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.

  Galileo Galilei

  Fall, Would Be, Scandal

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• When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!

  Lewis Carroll

  Self, Stupidity, Patient

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Symbolic Logic: {Complete & Illustrated}”, p.10, eKitap Projesi

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• I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

  Howard Gardner

  Confused, Book, Emotional

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was.

  GG Allin

  Waiting, Pennies, More Money

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• If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Two, People, Listening

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.65, Full Moon Publications

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• I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Enjoy, Irritating

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• Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Two, Duration

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.375, Vintage

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