If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.
I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.
There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.
The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
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