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Quotes About Irritation

Avoid irritation more than exposure to the sun...In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' . . .
~ Joseph Conrad
I said, irritated by his tone. There's no rest for me till she's out in the Indian Ocean and not much of it even then. He puffed at his cigar moodily, as if transformed. Yes. That's what it amounts to, he said in a musing tone. It was as if a ponderous curtain had rolled up disclosing an unexpected Captain Giles. But it was only for a moment, just the time to let him add, Precious little rest in life for anybody. Better not think of it.
~ Joseph Conrad
Não me confunde coisa nenhuma. Fico simplesmente irritado por julgarem que não passo de um pateta. Pensam que são espertos e todos nós estúpidos.
~ Joseph Heller
We can change our quality of life by changing your attitude toward the big and small things that usually irritate and anger us.
~ Joyce Meyer (Author)
Fluzzy, you're driving me crazy!
~ Judy Blume
I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
~ Whoopie Goldberg
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
~ Dante Alighieri
How lucky Drew was to have this mother of hers, this constant, reliable, if at times irritating presence in her life--this mother, like so many other mothers, beloved and blamed. Lucky she was to have experience, through her mother, the twisted intricaciesof deep, and deeply complex, love.
~ Daphne Kalotay
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
~ Dave Matthews
So they fought. Now Jurgen was a very acceptable swordsman, but from the start he found in Heitman Michael his master. Jurgen had never reckoned upon that, and he considered it annoying. If Heitman Michael perforated Jurgen the future would be altered, certainly, but not quite as Jurgen had decided it ought to be remodeled. So this unlooked-for complication seemed preposterous, and Jurgen began to be irritated by the suspicion that he was getting himself killed for nothing at all.
~ James Branch Cabell
I know," he finally responded. "But it was so … vicious. So brutal. I wish I could've just shot him from a distance with a gun or something." "Yeah. Sorry it had to go down that way." "What if I see his nasty face every night when I go to sleep? What if he's in my dreams?" He felt a surge of irritation at Brenda for making him stab the Crank—maybe unwarranted when he really considered how desperate they'd been.
~ James Dashner
She sped into traffic, earning an irritated beep from an angry driver. What was his problem? A full handspan stretched between her car and the Fiat behind her. Plenty of room…
~ James Rollins
But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying "Apparently" in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. "Um, I can't find the can opener." "Apparently." "There's going to be a lunar eclipse tonight." "Apparently." "Look, sparks are coming out of the wall socket." "Apparently.
~ Donna Tartt
I am willing to release that part of me that irritates me when I think of you.
~ Doreen Virtue
The nursing brethren spoke in whispers to Jerott. Such stillness was what the overstrained body required. Pray God it would last. Downstairs, Jerott unleashed his anxious irritation on Marthe. 'They know it can't last. Why don't they admit it?' 'They are kind. They are innocent. They believe God is merciful,' said Marthe.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Damn it, said Wimsey, savagely, I always did hate watering-places!
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
~ Dorothy Parker
Resumo dos últimos capítulos: No início, o Universo foi criado. Isso irritou profundamente muitas pessoas e, no geral, foi encarado como uma péssima ideia.
~ Douglas Adams
Quello che lo irritava di più era il fatto che la gente era solita chiedergli sempre per quale ragione era così irritato.
~ Douglas Adams
It's hard to get mad at Neal, because he suffers from a medical condition called total fucking stupidity.
~ Douglas Coupland
Miss Marple made a ladylike noise of vexation like a cat sneezing to indicate profound disgust.
~ Agatha Christie
Peeves do not make very good pets.
~ Bo Bennett
You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.
~ Jim Lehrer