Irritation Quotes

Irritation Quote of the day

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

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.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

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

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

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.

If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

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.

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

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

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

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

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

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

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish)

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

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

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.

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

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.