Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Martin

Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.

Agnes Repplier

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

Charlie Munger

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.

Eckhart Tolle

With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.

Christopher Moore

Life is an irritation.

Don Marquis

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.

Dalai Lama

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Pat Riley

He has a little irritation on his knee. I don't think its any more than that. He sort of experienced it (Wednesday) morning. We'll see how it goes.

Pat Riley

He has a little irritation on his knee. I don't think it is anything more than that.

Brandon Backe

But it's irritating when you can't get in touch with somebody you have to.

Amanda Palmer

How you sound. How you look. Are you fat? Those are things that could be really irritating.

Rachel Hurd-Wood

A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'

Tom Kenny

I like being invisible. For me it's the perfect job for someone who's simultaneously shy and an irritating show off.

Jonathan Franzen

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose,

Stephen Tobolowsky

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.