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.

Charles Stross

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Alan Price

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

Alan Hovhaness

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

Alan Green

Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it's about being human.

Akhil Sharma

To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.

Chris Chelios

I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.

Chris Colfer

Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

Chip Conley

Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

David Schwimmer

I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked about the last scene. It was interesting because it was split right down the middle, 50/50. About half the audience wanted it to end with the very emotional scene between Clive and Liana, and that feeling of realization and catharsis. And, the other half were adamant about keeping that last scene.