Quotes for All
To raise children you must have love and a wholesome understanding, and that is why a parent should pray fervently for their own salvation, so that their own sin does not get in the way. We can be saved from irritation and anger! Children can quickly sense if their parents are irritated, and then the … Read more
That’s why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don’t like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It’s unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you’re messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody … Read more
If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. – Epictetus
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. Emile M. Cioran
The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me. Emanuel Celler
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it’s only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly. Elizabeth Hurley
Women ought to be free – as free as we are,’ he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences. Edith Wharton
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be. E. M. Forster
I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated. Frank Zappa
I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable. Francoise Sagan