Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wayne Dyer

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.

Wayne Dyer

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Emile M. Cioran

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom

John Green

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

Carolyn Heilbrun

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

Christopher Hitchens

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom...

Christopher Hitchens

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Joseph Conrad

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality

Joseph Conrad

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

William Allingham

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one:I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Rod Schwarz

He just works hard and never says much. I'm just very proud and happy for him.

Junko Abe

He's always happy, so that makes me really happy, too.

Algis Shalna

I think we would be happy to (see her) get into the top 20. We have to at some point be realistic.

Shay Carl

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Jim Rayfield

I think this play is, in a sense, the father's story. We see him go from a state of happiness - he's content; he has his son; he's okay - to the end, where he is totally lost.

Carl Jung

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Dale Jr

I can live with myself knowing I at least tried to win rather than stay in line. We're real happy to come out of here with a top 10.

Thomas Jones

I am happy it's this one because if anything I get to leave with a laugh.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

I am happy whatever you become; just remain truthful and sincere to your own being.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Jon Ronson

I was always out to paint them with human characteristics we could relate to. They really are, by and large, personable in the flesh.

Nick Cave

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

John Ashcroft

Human trafficking victims are too often people like Got. Too young, too frightened, and too trapped in their circumstances to speak for themselves, ... This is a 4-year-old child. He's a shy, tender little boy.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Adrienne Barbeau

Her pain was very apparent, the torment she was in.

Jesse Jackson

I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

William Wilberforce

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Kelsea Ballerini

I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.

Richard Paul Evans

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

Richelle Mead

Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb." "Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?

Richelle Mead

She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.