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.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Carson McCullers

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

John McCain

Torture doesn't work.

Nathan Barankin

a long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.

William J. Clinton

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

Sigmund Freud

Now it is nothing but torture.

Benjamin F. Wade

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

John Donne

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Henning Mankell

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

James Richardson

Success is whatever humiliation everyone has agreed to compete for.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.