It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go on speaking kindly to the same irritating relative, or irritating employee, or irritating child day after day, week after week, year after year and come to see in that what God is asking of me, what God is teaching me about myself in this weary, weary moment.
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Related I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck. JIM PARSONS God, living people are irritating. KENDARE BLAKE Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhe... TERRY EAGLETON According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea. NEIL GAIMAN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Day after day I'm missing you. Week after week I'm forgetting you. Month after month I'm moving on. ... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB The thing that's extremely irritating to us is that in 20, 21 years, there never has been a complain... BETTY LUTTIER After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritat... EVELYN UNDERHILL After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritat... EVELYN UNDERHILL One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and so... LEMONY SNICKET It's harder, but it's what I expected. But, it is irritating to hear another major complain about ho... JEREMY JONES I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irrita... J.K. ROWLING Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house. MATTHEW TOBIN ANDERSON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. We can use attention-grabbing signals in cars but they are very irritating for the driver. The more ... CHARLES SPENCE Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people. ALEXANDER THEROUX In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. ROBERT SMITH And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything. Who knows if I’ll be dead the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, ... JAMES A. MURPHY Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their trivial... W. H. AUDEN The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. DIANA GABALDON A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL There's a lot of nonsense going on here. This has absolutely no relevance to this case. It's irritat... CONRAD BLACK The issue here is what happens to corporate profitability. What we've found irritating in a way abou... STEWART PATERSON You choose to let things bother you. You can just as easily choose not to notice the irritating offe... ROBERT GREENE The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins. ANN COULTER Phonograph, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises. AMBROSE BIERCE Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren... RUPERT EVERETT Repetition is tolerable in the stutterer, but very irritating in other people. MARIANA FULGER Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating? JOE PESCI The satisfaction an imbecile derives from having right on his side and being certain of success is e... MARCEL PROUST Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend... CRAIG GROESCHEL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating. STEPHENIE MEYER Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... CRISTIANO RONALDO Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God. R.C. SPROUL I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating. JIM BUTCHER I was just totally bummed out. It just bummed me out because it's so irritating. MARY QUINLAN Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour a... PAUL AUSTER The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL There's been an attempt to put reporters on the spot and question the motivation of reporters. It is... DAVID GREGORY I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it ... NENE LEAKES It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying... NATE DIAZ Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know. OSCAR WILDE After last week, I think our mentality is where it was last year at this time, and even better. We a... JOSHUA KATCHER Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA This is life or death, basically. At least for me on the regular tour, there is always next week or ... BILL GLASSON The two most irritating words in the English language are 'YOU KNOW' because if the people know some... ANUJ SOMANY You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the em... ANISH KAPOOR I never played with a brace on, and it was very irritating. I couldn't move with it on. AL THORNTON To love is to act. VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt... BIJOU HUNTER Whenever you feel that someone is angry or someone has collided with you, you always think that he i... OSHO One definition of insanity is to do the same thing, day-after-day, expecting different results MARK SILBER It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one even... TOM HOLT On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cyc... TOM HODGKINSON What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happ... SCOTT WESTERFELD It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 yea... MACKLEMORE It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and... LEMONY SNICKET I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn't be seen dead at. WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one ... TOM HOLT But it's irritating when you can't get in touch with somebody you have to. BRANDON BACKE Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I se... EDWARD RUSCHA While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state... CHRISTINA ENGELA They had balloons in the rafters, ready to go down after they won. To see their fans after that loss... BRAD BUCKMAN To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. KIN HUBBARD What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin... CHRIS PINE Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO I like being invisible. For me it's the perfect job for someone who's simultaneously shy and an irri... TOM KENNY On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to th... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been pri... KEN LIVINGSTONE No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has ... MICHIO KAKU Life is about happiness—not about success. DEBASISH MRIDHA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha... GEORGE ORWELL I think that technology is the best thing that ever happened to mankind. It's an absurd notion t... JAMIE DIMON You're dealing with a show where the lead character is making the irritating and uncomfortable choic... JON STEWART To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN They want to make sure that the question is not resolved, that they continue to fight. And they will... ANDREI KORTUNOV
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