Irritated Quotes - Page 3

• There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Attitude, Party, Progress

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• You get irritated when I say I'm not angry and you get irritated when I say I am angry. I can't win." "Because you just saying whatever you think will shut me up," he accused me. "Aye, but it's not working." "Argh!" was his response, and he charged on down the street.

  Moira J. Moore

  Winning, Thinking, Just Saying

  Moira J. Moore (2006). “The Hero Strikes Back”, p.72, Penguin

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• My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place." Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?" Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Home, Tired

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.539, Simon and Schuster

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• I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Arrogance, Suffering, Doe

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• The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

  Andrew Goodman

  Black, Warning, Our Society

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• I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

  Trent Reznor

  Shy, Knows, Written

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

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• People get really irritated by mental illness.

  Maria Bamford

  People, Mental Illness, Get Real

  "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.

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• I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him. 'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated.

  Melina Marchetta

  Lying, Smoking, Bed

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• I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it.

  Jacki Weaver

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Rain, Caring, Blow

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• I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Lying, Problem

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2015

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• It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Names, Pet, Would Be

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

  Alexander Theroux

  Hair, People, Natural

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• The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Truth, Doe, Enlightening

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• There's a part of me that is angry. Not in the sense of, "Gee, George is an angry guy!" I mean, anyone who's been with me five minutes, five years, whatever, they would tell you they've rarely seen me in a moment of anger. Yes, I can become highly irritated in a line that's moving slowly, or with a clerk who's incompetent. But I don't yell. I don't get rude. I am clear about what I expect. In a store, my mother always told me, "Ask for the manager immediately. It changes the tone of the conversation."

  George Carlin

  Mother, Moving, Mean

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• If we pray only because we want answers, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove that God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Prayer, Irritation

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.456, Discovery House

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• People will always write and think all sorts of things – be irritated by us, have affection for us, think we dress coolly or disastrously. It’s whatever.

  Helena

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Calm, Quiet

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• I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of mankind'-it really irritated me!

  Kirstie Alley

  Animal, Ideas, People

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• I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Needs, Littles, Limits

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• Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing, and yet it was difficult to notice and be grateful when one was continually fatigued and irritated. I suppose that unquenchable sense of wonder is what separates us dolts from the saints and the poets.

  Jane Hamilton

  Grateful, Knowing, Miracle

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• I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

  Sheryl Crow

  Philosophy, Writing, People

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• Some people do get nervous about cooking for me, others just get extremely irritated by my interfering.

  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

  People, Cooking, Nervous

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Dark, Fog

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.269

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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

  Irritation, People, Eccentric

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

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