Irritating Quotes - Page 6

• I, fortunately, have never worried about irritating people.

  Bobby Knight

  People, Worry, Worried

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• Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

  Wendy McElroy

  Freedom, Mean, Self

  "XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography". Chapter 4, www.wendymcelroy.com. 1995.

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• On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat, but one in which Jesus Christ fights for us. We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.

  Francois Fenelon

  Jesus, Home, Fighting

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

  Indra Devi

  Personality, Anxiety, Gone

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• It happens over and over again—a group of people come together, fired up with passion to create change. They begin with huge inspiration and enthusiasm—and a year later, it’s all foundered in the mire of conflict. We could have changed the world ten times over—if we didn’t have to do it together with other people, those irritating, self-righteous, controlling, fluff-brained, clueless idiots who are our friends and allies.

  Starhawk

  Inspiration, Clueless, Passion

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• What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, What If, Factions

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Never whine about the French. It's considered a sign of weakness to even acknowledge their existence. Remember: The poor devils haven't won anything since they rebuffed the Kaiser at Marne. Irritating the world into submission is their only hope. Ignore them when you can, agree with them when you can't - but never, ever make eye contact. Particularly after dark.

  Randy Wayne

  Eye, Dark, Devil

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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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• I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Eye, Cutting, Skins

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• Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

  Jonathan Franzen

  "Jonathan Franzen: 'Twitter is the ultimate irresponsible medium'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2012.

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• I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

  Aphex Twin

  Lying, Kids, Should Have

  "Tank boy". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.

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• Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, Salad

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• Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Book, Library, Want

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• Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

  Alexander Theroux

  Hair, People, Irritated

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• My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Brother, People, Misanthrope

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• I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because thats been said to me.

  Maria Bamford

  Character, Voice, Said

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• Perez Hilton is an irritating wasp in the beautiful rose garden that is my life.

  Lily Allen

  Beautiful, Garden, Rose

  "Does Lily Allen's new website take digs at Cheryl Cole, Beyoncé and Perez Hilton?" by Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2014.

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• Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Women, Mind, Desire

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• There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.

  A. S. Byatt

  School, Writing, Artist

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• It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Hero, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.

  Matthew Engel

  Soccer, Football, Running

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• When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it.

  Jim Norton

  Mean, Voice, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Its really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, I usually dont like female comedians, but your material is great! It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

  Chelsea Peretti

  Jobs, People, Comedian

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• Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Oddities, Sorrow, Faults

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6393, Delphi Classics

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• You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Home, Mean, Thinking

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