Irritated Quotes

• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Health

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.127, Shambhala Publications

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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Differences

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• 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.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Attitude, Book, Taken

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• I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Way In Life, Upset, Training

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 13, 1982.

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• Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Literature

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• 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.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, White, Nba

  "Bird: NBA 'a black man's game'". www.espn.com. June 10, 2004.

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• In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

  Robert Smith

  People, Needs, Cases

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• Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

  James Bryant Conant

  Behavior, Surface, Below The Surface

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• Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Sloth, Mind, Laziness

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

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• If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

  Epictetus

  Remember, Judgment, Incidents

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• Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

  Pema Chodron

  Feelings, Hopeless, Restless

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  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Bored, Stressed, Nervous

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• I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.

  Anjelica Huston

  Thinking, People, Role Models

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Ashley Montagu

  Girl, Boys, Irritation

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• The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Anger, Irritation

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• This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

  Victoria Beckham

  Hell, Wells, Persons

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• We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hypocrisy, Fool, Prepared

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

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• Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

  Tacitus

  Abuse, Criticism, Critics

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• I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

  Avril Lavigne

  Ice Cream, Junk, Sugar

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• Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

  Kinky Friedman

  Jesus, Jobs, Home

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• Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

  Joe Pesci

  Mad, Max, Call Me

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• It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

  Tom Holt

  Beautiful, Girl, Workout

  "Expecting Someone Taller". Book by Tom Holt, 1987.

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• If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Compassion, Irritation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Steig Larsson

  Two, Stories, Detectives

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