#irritate

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

#down #got #i #i am #i think

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. ↗

— Andrew Goodman

#black #constitute #current #deplorable #heeded

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#american #begin #convenient #critics #imperfections

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#feels #here #i #i am #irritated

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. ↗

— Buddha

#doubt #dreadful #friendships #habit #hurts

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#calms #consequences #excess #fatal #heats

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ↗

— Clara Barton

#always #anything #been #better #complete

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#also #comes #face #i #irritates

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#completely #doctor #doing #ended #first

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#character #i #irritates #makes #mind