Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Goncourt

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

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And those who, when great wrong afflicts them, defend themselves.

Raghuram Rajan

Europe's citizens do not seem convinced that the bitter medicine of continued structural reforms will cure the stasis that afflicts much of the Continent. It is a failure of politics that people have not come to see that the more they want to retain the attractive European way of life, the more the way they work will have to change.

Atharva Veda

Sickness afflicts those who commit sins; God Himself sits as the Judge.

Henry Cabot Lodge

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

Tom Paulin

Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.

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To those whose hearts tremble when Allah is mentioned, and those who are patient under that which afflicts them, and those who keep up prayer, and spend (benevolently) out of what We have given them. (The Pilgrimage 22.35)

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.

Robertson Davies

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Roger Ebert

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Wislawa Szymborska

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?

Voltaire

The best way to be boring is to include everything.

Voltaire

The way to be a bore is to say everything.

Voltaire

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Lorenzo Romar

If we didn't get him, I'm glad UA got him because Lute does a great job. When you get to know someone like Marcus, you pull for him. He's in good hands.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Jim Heacock

We've faced a lot of good offenses, so I don't know that that's going to be any different.

Rahul Dravid

We've faced a few (fast) bowlers, so it's nice to have someone who can give it back.

Jim Stagnitta

We threw a kid out there who hasn't faced off all year, and he battled.

Sheraz Mian

We are faced with perhaps the worst possible situation that planners and policy makers could image.

H. Hunt

I think what's got to happen, and I give a lot of kudos to my colleagues, my ADs, is we may get faced with something that we don't want to happen for our schools. But (instead) for the betterment of the league in itself ... in the long haul.

Jeff Suppan

Last year I faced them a lot, so I think that prepares me for this year,

Jacques Chirac

There is a need to respond strongly and rapidly to the undeniable problems faced by many residents of underprivileged neighborhoods around our cities,

Jeremy Roenick

I think it indicates the state of our game, the lack of respect especially in preseason,

Jim Bowden

He was able to pitch with the tear. His lack of performance had to do with the tear.

Jud Gartman

We are going to run the ball. We can't throw it a lot because of our lack of speed. We have to do what we can do best.

Stephanie Cravens

Lack of understanding about roles/responsibilities results in violation of statutes on board's part.

Marcos Basaglia

There is a lack of volume, a lack of interest, a lack of liquidity at this level. The market is well apathetic.

Marshall Steeves

There is a lack of heating demand. We're experiencing a very unusual warm pattern in the United States. Also, the DOE (inventory) expectations are pretty bearish for tomorrow.

Brian Roberts

We just have to do something to get out of what we're in. I don't know if it's a lack of concentration. We have to show a little more pride than what we've been showing.

Saeb Erekat

I think we have a major problem in the lack of credibility of the peace process and the trust between the two sides.

Joe Biden

I do not understand the lack of a sense of urgency.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Virginia Woolf

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

William Gibson

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

Sarah Brightman

You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

Roald Dahl

We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.

Rob Bell

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

Sarah Polley

Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

Wayne Dyer

Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now

Samuel Goldwyn

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

Lynda Carter

Having them go to these premieres with me and tell me that they are proud of me is pretty cool.

Tom Gorman

We're proud of what happened. It was important for the community.

Manson Hill

We're proud of our players. We outplayed them in the second half, and we had a shot to win it.

Brian Smith

We're proud of Levi. He's one of 11 state finalists at Bellingham.

Kevin Ellis

We're proud of everything Raynham is and stands for. That's why it's worth it.

Greg Zipadelli

What I'm proudest of this season is how we've battled throughout every weekend,

John Torchetti

I was just proud of our whole team. This is a team win if I have ever seen one. From the goalie out, we competed.

Sharon Proehl

He was proud that was what he always told us he wanted to do.

Jose Rios

He was good. He wanted to be successful. He was always proud of what he was doing.

Chuck D.

It could have something to do with the coarse quality of their paper.

Fernando Couto

I think we have the quality and the right spirit to get a win.

Dwane Casey

I'd like to see if he can get up 20 shots. You can't just walk through that and get that many shots up, quality shots. To get 20 quality shots, it takes work.

Jimmy Johnson

I didn't come back and feel like I solved the world's problems. But I spent a lot of quality time with my wife and didn't think about racing.

David Carr

He is a quality guy. If he hasn't taken a step forward, it's because he hasn't been shown the way.

Rob Zombie

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Richard Bach

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Trisha Goddard

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Richard Davidson

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Gary Sherwin

If you're part of the community, whether you like it or not, you're part of the brand.

Deirdre O'Kane

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Enrique Morones

We still don't know whether it will be a march, a strike, or a fast.

Rivers Cuomo

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Douglas Rice

I was wondering if we were going to sink. It was very, very wobbly and very, very dark.

Al Wolski

I was just wondering if we were ever going to get the ball.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Willie Aames

When youre in that scene, you really wonder if this is all youre ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.