Robert Smith
Musician
"In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated."
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Irritated
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James Bryant Conant
Chemist, Educator
"Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"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."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"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. -"
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"History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea."
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"Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling."
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"Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin."
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"When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that."
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"I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable."
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"And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate."
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"I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin."
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"Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative."
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"Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right."
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"I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl.""
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"The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why."
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"I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms."
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"When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!"
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