Quotes of Irritation - somelinesforyou

“ Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. ”

- Bible

“ Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed? ”

- Victoria Wood

“ The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; — and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ All is vanity and vexation of spirit. ”

- Bible

“ If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. ”

- Robert Brault

“ Called me wessel, Sammy — a wessel of wrath. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. ”

- Joan Didion

“ What is the life of a Christian but a life of prayer! ”

- David Brown

“ What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it. ”

- Bible

“ We share the same indignation to terrorism. ”

- Junichiro Koizumi

“ It doesn't dampen my enthusiasm. It's just an annoyance. It seems like the better you're doing, the more that happens. If nothing's going on, nobody cares. ”

- Robby Krieger

“ War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said. ”

- Jeff Garcia

“ Having experienced the vexation of marriage, why should she be like the dog who returns to his own vomit. ”

- St. Jerome

“ We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. ”

- Norman Lear

“ One will never know what the right answer was, because one doesn't know what Koresh would have done two weeks later without any provocation. ”

- Janet Reno

“ Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. ”

- William R. Alger

“ Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity. ”

- Moses Hasid

“ I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation. ”

- Whoopi Goldberg

“ Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by. ”

- Unknown

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

- Horace
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