{"quotes":[{"text":"A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["appearance","bullshit","character","dislike","flaw","imperfection","individuality","inspection","irritation","regret","sensitive","sensitivity","shell","trait","traits","unloveable"],"id":4721,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"I think we all keep irritating situations in our head to long, until we finally realize it’s taking up valuable space.","author":"Ron Baratono","tags":["irritation","mind","situations"],"id":9433,"author_id":"Ron+Baratono"},{"text":"That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.","author":"Ransom Riggs","tags":["best-friends","cooperation","friendship","irritation"],"id":26866,"author_id":"Ransom+Riggs"},{"text":"We tend not to look at the bigger picture of our lives and instead dwell on the small things that irritate us. When we focus on the bigger picture, those small things fade away.","author":"Ron Baratono","tags":["dwell","focus","irritation","life"],"id":30414,"author_id":"Ron+Baratono"},{"text":"To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["anger","blasphemy","danger","darkness","destruction","force","god","ignorance","insult","irritation","knowledge","life","light","mountain","people","positive-force","positivity","power"],"id":59143,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["everybody","frigid","happiness","irritation","perturbation","please","time","try","tryhard","wannabe"],"id":59314,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["annoyance","handwriting","irritation","listener","reader","speaker","voice","writer","writing"],"id":61738,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.","author":"Lev Grossman","tags":["actions","annoyance","irritation","responsibility","self-awareness"],"id":86604,"author_id":"Lev+Grossman"},{"text":"Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["analogies","anger","angry-men","annoy","bitter-people","characters","conflict","cruel-people","drama","enemies","examples","fake-christians","fiction-characters","fights","friends","irritation","jealous-women","life-events","made-an-example","memories","plots","stalkers","stories","villians","writers","writing"],"id":135108,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravating","annoy","annoying","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","bashful","bashfulness","boldness","bothersome","can-do","confident","coolheaded","courage","coyness","cursed","demureness","diffidence","diffident","embarrassed","embarrassment","exasperating","extrovert","extroverted","farouche","funny","galling","girl","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","infuriating","inhibited","insecure","introversion","introvert","introverted","irksome","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","lack-of-confidence","levelheaded","maddening","man","men","mettle","mousiness","mousy","nerve","nervous","nettlesome","obnoxious","pesky","phlegm","phlegmatic","poise","poised","positive","quotations","quotes","repressed","reserve","reserved","reservedness","reticence","reticent","retiring","satire","self-assurance","self-assured","self-confidence","self-confident","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-effacing","self-possessed","self-possession","self-reliant","sheepish","sheepishness","shy","shyness","timid","timidity","timidness","timorous","timorousness","tiresome","together","troublesome","trying","unconfident","unperturbed","unruffled","vexatious","vexing","withdrawn"],"id":173966,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}