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boredom firsts world
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. Cecil Beaton
boredom battle despair
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. B. F. Skinner
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His own boredom could be a problem. He could stay on top a long time -- if that's what he wants. That's a big 'if.' That's up to him. He's under a lot of pressure, and the next few years will be a problem. He won't mature until he's 25. Kevin Rooney
boredom judging fool
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom. David Mitchell
boredom enemy television
The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability. David Nevins
boredom towns news
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
boredom burns enthusiasm fire plague worth
When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and boredom never plague them. Rig Veda
boredom made ennui
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice. Charles Caleb Colton
boredom indifference contempt
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. Charlaine Harris
indifference plague
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference? Bernard Beckett
indifference
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Edmund Burke
indifference poet
RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. Ambrose Bierce
indifference distinction indifferent
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
indifference
A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. Ian Fleming
indifference blind terror
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. James A. Baldwin
indifference disguise toleration
Toleration is often just indifference in disguise. Frederick Buechner
indifference command
She commands who is blest with indifference. Nicolas Chamfort
indifference ideology hostility
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference. Mason Cooley
contempt word writer wrote
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
contempt control feeling hatred neither quite within
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
contempt deal gone longer obviously penalty phase serious strike work
If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.
contempt hold naturally
I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
contempt heard held people president
Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.
contempt despised
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
contempt department job learned running saw students worst younger
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
contempt joyce letters people throughout virginia writers
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Michel Faber
contempt father grew opinions speech
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer