Irritation Quotes - Page 3

• Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.

  Geoff Dyer

  Ambition, Levels

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• Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because novelty and challenge also bring frustration and irritation - but if you can push through that, novelty and challenge can bring enormous happiness rewards.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Frustration, Skills, People

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.

  Randy Newman

  People, Eccentric, Irritated

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

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• The message we give our bodies - one of irritation or acceptance - is the message to which our bodies will answer.

  Debbie Shapiro

  Inspiring, Acceptance, Journey

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• England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Would Be, Canada

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• Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

  Charlie Munger

  Irritating, Not Worth It, Promoters

  Charlie Munger's comments on short selling at the 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 28, 2001.

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• Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Men, Response, Strain

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.65, Penguin

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• Life is an irritation.

  Christopher Moore

  Life Is

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Lying, Healing, Fighting

  Sinclair Lewis (1956). “Dodsworth”

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• In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

  Charles Buxton

  Home, Perfect, Effort

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• Hmm?' I looked away, flustered automatically using irritation to cover my discomfort up. 'What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more that five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come across-- primal.' His smile tipped higher. 'Primal.' 'You're impossible.' 'Me Jev, you Nora.' -Nora & Patch (PG 226)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Doe, Use, Impossible

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.914, Simon and Schuster

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• Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects." "Seven sacred sects," I repeated. "Say that three times fast." "How about I spank you instead?" asked Patrick in a benign tone that belied the flare of irritation in his gaze. "Only if you tie me to a bed and use a paddle." His silver eyes went molten. Uh-oh. Me and my big smart-aleck mouth. "I… uh, sorry. I didn't mean that. I saw Secretary a few too many times. I'm impressionable.

  Michele Bardsley

  Sorry, Smart, Mean

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.68, Penguin

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• I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

  Anita Brookner

  Loneliness, Way, Needs

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• Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

  Don Marquis

  Personality, Able, Causes

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• True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.

  Vera Nazarian

  Fantasy, Painful, Heal

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.

  Thomas Crum

  Frustration, Joy, Growth

  Thomas F. Crum, Thomas Crum (1998). “The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• To raise children you must have love and a wholesome understanding, and that is why a parent should pray fervently for their own salvation, so that their own sin does not get in the way. We can be saved from irritation and anger! Children can quickly sense if their parents are irritated, and then the children can be easily provoked and react stubbornly.

  Esther Smith

  Children, Parent, Understanding

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• One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Months, Scientist

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Wise, Heart, Permanent Things

  Benjamin Harrison (1901). “Views of an Ex-president”

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• People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

  Nora Roberts

  People, Entertainment, Source

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• Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Mountain, Use

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

  William P. Young

  Memories, Missing, May

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• Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mind, Levi Strauss, Source

  "Chronicles of Earthsea". The Guardian Online Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2004.

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• My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Emotional, Poetry

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

  Honore de Balzac

  Powerful, Passion, Wine

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